Plant Tells Women: Wear Pants or Lose Job

Appropriate Workplace Dress: This whole diversity thing has a downside. Case in point: Six Somali women working at a Mission Foods tortilla plant claim in a federal lawsuit that they are being denied the right to wear the required loose-fitting clothing of Islam. The company maintains that’s hogwash, noting the company’s dress-code policy prohibits such garments for safety reasons. The women claim they shouldn’t be forced to wear the mandated company uniform because it is too immodest, according to an article published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Mission Foods, which is part of Irving, Texas-based Gruma Corp., says the women have been relieved of their duties pending a resolution. The company says the women can return to their jobs providing they adhere to Mission Foods’ corporate dress policy, but notes in a statement that the jobs cannot be held open indefinitely. Suing on behalf of the women is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization with alleged ties to Palestinian terror group Hamas.