"University loses round on holiday policy"
York's practice of canceling classes for Jewish holidays found to be discriminatory
blah blah blah... they can say whatever they want about how discriminatory this is but they always seem to forget that we have both easter and christmas off. it's always discrimination when we try to get new (read: different) religious holidays sanctioned but it is never discrimination that, because of long-standing government policy, we get exclusively christian holidays. how is one violating the human rights code and the other not?
the university spokesperson stressed that "students on any religious background can ask to be excused from class for a religious holiday." but still... it's missing class! i learned very early on in my post-secondary education career that being in class is essential. fine, you can have the day off but your class isn't going to wait for you... they're moving on without you.
similar things happen once out of school as well! you can excuse yourself from work for any religious holiday but at your own cost - you have to use up a vacation day or go unpaid for that day.
people get outraged when someone wants a day off for religious reasons but i think people would be even more outraged if they found out that the government decided that having holidays for easter and christmas violated the human rights code and we'd be going to work on those days.
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