Williams v. Commission on Civil Rights

This is an appeal from an order of the civil rights commission dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint that the defendant General Motors Corporation had discriminated against her in violation of § 31-126 of the General Statutes. Her complaint to the commission had claimed that General Motors had committed an unfair employment practice by terminating her employment because of her refusal to work her regular shift assignments, which involved work between sundown on Friday and sundown on Saturday. She claimed that since such refusal was based on her religious convictions as a Seventh-Day Adventist,…