P&G, XLC sued for discrimination

Corporate culture has long ruled the roost locally, and it's unsurprising that religious and gender discrimination are part of the package. Big Business's program of control is multipronged.

And most folks who are familiar with the right-wing gasbags who dominate cable TV and talk radio know how much the right-wing noise machine scapegoats Muslims. Much of it is subtle, like how the crawl on Fox News Channel trots out brief items designed to keep viewers in panic mode. This is but one facet of the corporate program.

Now 2 Cincinnati-based companies - Procter & Gamble and XLC Services (a contractor for P&G) - are being sued by a Muslim employee at a North Carolina facility. The plaintiff says she was forcibly searched for jewelry that violated company policy (while other workers were not searched), and that she was fired for reporting sexual harassment. The suit accuses XLC and P&G of gender and religious discrimination, deceptive trade practices, battery, and other wrongdoing.

If the allegations are true, what does it say about corporate society? It sure doesn't say much for Corporate America's supposed commitment to friendly workplaces.

(Source: http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/blog-3949-procter_gamble_sued_for_religious_discrimination.html)