Department of Civil Rights Ex Rel. Parks v. General Motors Corp.

The Civil Rights Commission found that General Motors had discriminated against Mary Parks because of religion. That finding was based on stipulated facts that Parks, an observant Seventh-day Adventist, when hired on September 18, 1972, at the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, was placed on a shift that included hours of her Sabbath (Friday evening and Saturday), that she was discharged from employment when she failed to report for work on three successive Fridays (September 22, September 29, and October 6, 1972), and that General Motors, "upon being confronted with the conflict between the…