
Pot washer wins $21m for working on Sundays
Sky News: A pot washer has been awarded $21m (£16.3m) for being forced to work on Sundays.
Marie Jean Pierre was fired in March 2016 from the Conrad Miami Hotel for missing work on six Sundays so she could attend Bethel Baptist Church in Miami.
The 60-year-old, originally from Haiti, had worked at the hotel for more than a decade and had previously not been made to work on Sundays.
A devout Christian missionary, she said she told her employer when she was hired that she could not work on Sundays because of her religious beliefs.
“I love God. No work on Sunday, because Sunday I honour God,” she told NBC 6 Miami.
