Staff Pray A Few Times A Day

[newbie99]

I am currently manages a few staff and there is a staff that prays multiple times a day. Each day this individual uses at least over 60 min in total.

Other staff had complaint and I am not sure how to deal with it. We are a very busy team and works 37 hours a week. But if each day 1 hour is lost then it is significant over time.

Anyone experience this type of issue. I think it is very similar issue to smokers vs non-smokers situation.

[BlackadderV]

For anyone who has ever worked in, or been a manager in a call centre, as I have, will know just how impractical the solution is of working extra at the beginning or end of the day. You are scheduled to work when the service level demands it. No point in taking time off when the phones are red hot then sitting for an hour doing nothing when it's quiet. If you fail to meet the service level, the client will financially penalise your company.

[EcclesCake]

My mistake I didn't realise that the Christian faith was indigenous to the UK.

[woofgang]

Blackadder, did the OP say it was a call centre?

[Answerprancer]

"Whether you like it or not, eccles, this is still a Christian country".
...no it isn't, it's a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy, christianity does not rule anymore.

[ToraToraTora]

deduct an hour a day, simples, I used to contract for an outfit that did it with smokers.

[New Judge]

If we’re being pedantic about the religious constituency of the United Kingdom, it is a Constitutional Monarchy where the Head of State (HM the Queen) is also head of the Established Church (the Church of England). The Established Church has representatives appointed by right to the House of Lords (the 26 Bishops – the Lords Spiritual).

Of the respondents to the 2011 Census, just under 60% stated their religion as Christian (this was in fact more than 80% of those who stated a religion). By contrast just 7.7% stated they followed a non-Christian religion. The Christian Church holds considerable sway in the UK and it is the driver behind a fair amount of its legislation.

However, that is not the issue here. Islam demands, apparently, that its followers wash and pray many times a day. This is incompatible with most business that is conducted here and that is why I refer to it as an alien culture. Islamic nations obviously have arrangements in place to accommodate these idiosyncrasies. The UK does not and there is no reason why businesses here should be forced to make similar accommodations.

[SirOracle]

Just to take you up on your first point NJ,and I am fed up making it,the Queen is NOT the head of the Church in the UK .

This authority does not extend to Scotland,which you and many others here keep forgetting is still part of the UK.

If you are wanting to be pedantic as you state,then please make sure of your facts.

[tamborine]

If you want paye, do the work!

spell that out to your employee.

[New Judge]

I did not say that she was, SirO.

She is the Head of State of the United Kingdom and the head of the Church of England. I said nothing about her being the head of the church of the entire UK and apologies if I gave that impression. She plays a role in the Church of Scotland (the Established Church there) in that the monarch undertakes to preserve the Church of Scotland upon his/her accession. There is no Established Church in Wales or Northern Ireland.

I was trying to dispel the assertion that the UK is not a predominantly Christian country. In linking the Monarch with the two Established churches (in the constituent parts containing about 93% of the population) and providing the religious make up from the census I believe I have done that. There’s certainly a far greater case to support making the UK a predominantly Christian nation than there is for making it an Islamic state (for the moment anyway).

[Answerprancer]

...nevertheless, christianity no longer "rules" the uk just as much as the queen can no longer chop off heads for treason. Parliament rules the country not religion. You can sit in the la la land of so-called christendom as much as you like but the fact is (afaic) that it's just a left over 'decoration' from bygone times and no longer has any clout.

[New Judge]

We're not talking about whether it "rules the land", AP. We're talking about what the predominant culture is. I would guess that, if asked, most people in the UK would suggest that a Christian culture is the one most prevalent in the country. This does not mean that most people go to church three times on Sunday, or that they have their children necessarily Christened or that they insist in marrying only in a church. It means that they believe that the cultures and values laid down by the Christian faith (when the church really did rule the land) are still extant today and that those values are predominant. Among those values, of course, are tolerance of other people’s faiths and beliefs but this should not mean that unreasonable accommodations should be made for them. I have no faith whatsoever (although I was Christened in a CofE church) but this is how I would answer the question.

By contrast in Muslim countries Islam really does rule the land. The faith is all encompassing and influences virtually every aspect of the followers’ lives (hence the original topic of this question). That is what a number of Muslims in the UK would like to see here and that is where the problems begin. The answer to that problem is to say firmly and clearly that those not interested in Islam will not be effected or influenced by its teachings, those wishing to follow it must do so without expecting unreasonable demands to be met and that should have been made clear two decades ago or more.

[newbie99]

Similar subject shown on Daily Mail,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2909511/Bullying-Royal-Mail-boss-staff-ask-permission-toilet-timed-long-went-for.html

[Retrochic]

Eccles -the Queen is head of the Church of England -that may give you a clue as to what the 'indigenous' Religion of the UK is.