Rojgar Job News

I’ve previously talked about Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) day in prior posts (including way back in 2008!). But this year, I was curious — have any race discrimination claims used evidence relating to the day to support a claim? Turns out there have been a few. One of the stranger ones was a claim by a bartender that he wasn’t rehired after being terminated by his employer that was decided by a federal court several years ago. As allegedly “direct” evidence, the bartender pointed to a conversation that occurred on MLK Jr. Day in which he was asked whether he wanted the night off “because it was Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday”. According to the bartender, the request was made so that a supervisor’s son, who also worked as a bartender could work an additional shift. The bartender claimed that the inquiry “demonstrated racial prejudice” because the supervisor “could have asked him to give up his shift to her son without ...