Reply To: What to do if ur boss is openly hostile

akuperma Re: How to deal with a boss who is hostile to frumkeit

1. Do you job very well. Legally marginal employees are protected, but being a valued employee is a better strategy.

2. Be consistent and open about halacha.

3. Don’t try to pull anything (e.g. if you take off during the summer to go to the country, don’t even think about taking off hol ha-Moed or other days that don’t have a prohibition of melachas). Be willing to come in super-early and to work super-late to make up time. Be the one anxious to cover on Sundays (or Saturday night ) and Thanksgiving and their religious holidays.

4. If that fails, you can file a complaint against the company with the EEOC of the local equivalent. If you have hired an attorney, he/she can advise you on the details. Many large cities in the US have frum organizations that can help.

5. The CEO of a corporation is not relevant since you are working for the corporation, not the CEO. His personal animosity doesn’t matter; what the corporation does is what matters. Remember that most CEO’s are employees, albeit rich ones. If you are high enough in the corporation that you have anything to do with the CEO, the local frum legal community may now a member of the Board of Directors who can help.

6. If it comes to suing, large corporations have “deep pockets”, meaning that lawyers love to sue them since if they win there is a big payday (for the lawyers). The bigger, the better.

I have been working for my boss since 1986, I have won the employee of the year award consistently for the past 29 years almost now, I infact created the key computer chip in his computer’s, that’s worth billions of dollars.