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Joe Amon, Denver Post file
Workers trim beef in manufacturing at Cargill Meat Solutions in Fort Morgan, Colorado. (Photo by Joe Amon, Denver Post file)More than 150 Muslim workers at Cargill’s meatpacking plant in Fort Morgan were fired in December amid a dispute over whether the Muslim employees could take prayer breaks during their shifts.
Colorado’s labor department this month that the workers are eligible for unemployment benefits because a company cannot force workers to choose between their religion and their jobs.
Cargill fired the workers, most of them from Somalia, in December after they walked off the job because of the dispute.
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