Mercedes-Benz Beats Muslim Employee’s Prayer-Break Bias Suit

Mercedes-Benz US International Inc. didn’t commit religious discrimination by telling a Muslim former employee that he could only pray during regularly scheduled breaks, the Eleventh Circuit said.

Mouatasem Zienni didn’t show a change in the terms or condition of his employment sufficient to hold Mercedes-Benz liable for denying him a religious accommodation to take his prayer breaks at specific times during the workday, as required by his Muslim faith, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said Monday.

Zienni worked on a moving assembly line and was given a scheduled lunch break and two other scheduled breaks a ...