Should workers get paid to pray AND get paid breaks on top of that?

[Hax]

Fragony is at least partially right. The total amount of Muslims that'd actually ask for paid breaks is so small that it has effectively no bearing on the situation of a company at all.

Besides, according to general Islamic theology, you can just skip a prayer and make up for it later. It's not really a big deal.

[Fisherking]

Here in Indonesia, there's only few, very few muslims that insist on having prayer breaks, and I never encounter any here, at my workplace.

*. most of them simply never pray unless it was their holiday

*. some who seem to be religious simply point out that their prayers can be joined and moved to lunch breaks (lunch break is about 12-14 PM), those who work till afternoon commonly have another break at 17-19 PM as well, and there's no one insist on leaving work/study for prayer.

This is interesting, coming from a primarily Muslim country.

Of course I would pray too if I got paid to do it.

As Hax said, it can be made up later. It sounds like workers playing the system to me. Nothing very novel about that…

[Beskar]

Reminds me when I was in Israel though, the prayers were taken very serious for the Muslims (who would suddenly begin kneeling in the middle of the street) and even then, some of those attending market stalls, shops and working simply do an "acknowledgement" and simply continued, presumingly going to make up for it later.

[Ja'chyra]

Short answer - no.

[Hax]

Reminds me when I was in Israel though, the prayers were taken very serious for the Muslims (who would suddenly begin kneeling in the middle of the street) and even then, some of those attending market stalls, shops and working simply do an "acknowledgement" and simply continued, presumingly going to make up for it later

Very much a knee-jerk reaction that is quite common in Arab-majority countries, but is particularly awful in Israel. Arab Muslims feel the need to over-self-identify as Muslims, so they do things like these. They don't make any sense, necessairly, nor is there any requirement to stop working just to pray. If I'm not mistaken there are several sayings attributed to Muhammad himself especially for situations like these.

[Rhyfelwyr]

You should not get special treatment because of your religion.

If you need to go and pray when your employer needs you to be working, go work somewhere else.

Same goes for Christians who won't work on the sabbath etc...

[CountArach]

Under Washington state law, employees are entitled to two paid 10-minute breaks during an eight-hour shift.

Sounds like a bigger problem to me.

[Fragony]

Fragony is at least partially right. The total amount of Muslims that'd actually ask for paid breaks is so small that it has effectively no bearing on the situation of a company at all.

Besides, according to general Islamic theology, you can just skip a prayer and make up for it later. It's not really a big deal.

Ya it isn't even required, it's christians becomming flagalants. But look from my perspective and why I discriminated, a Dutch convert no less asked for the same thing and it is impossible to organise anything that way and it's very very costly. So I refused and got gutmensch at my throat. It costed almost 20.000 euro getting gutmensch of my throat. Gutmensch will always demand you live their dream