Religion not a criteria for Employment

Zeryihun Kassa

Some Ethiopian businesses seem recruiting employees with same religious affiliation. Businesses set up by a Muslim, Orthodox or Protestant Christian appears to take in employees who practice same religion.

I don't get it. Had they been serving their religion it very much works, but they are serving customers with whatsoever faith. How on earth they feel and believe customers would be happy with this kind of virtual bias in the name of religion which in fact expects them to love everyone with equal heart.

I hope the public will punish such businesses by boycotting buying their services and products. Such practice is a disgrace in a country known for its religious tolerance and neighborliness among people with differing religions.

An employee should only be recruited for excellence and skills not for religious affiliation. It is time to correct this malice from the very beginning.

Any job doesn't call for a particular individual. It rather needs someone who is able to properly perform it. It is about getting a job done and getting customers satisfied. In a way it is not about having employees who come to terms with your religious belief.

At least Ethiopia is not the place for such bad tendencies and practices. I am an orthodox and I don't like a fellow orthodox with a business firm to employ an individual for just being orthodox. Individuals are enough to apply for a job just for being Ethiopians and for having the skills that the work demands.

Those who want to have organizations with their own religious followers should establish their business inside the fences of their worship places if at all business works that way.

It is such tendencies that grow into solid segregation agendas in time. Every time such rogue practices come into play it is good to kill them at the very onset than trying to eliminate it after it gets stronger.

Now is then the time to advocate for elimination of it and it is also time to boycott businesses which do so for no good reason other than discrimination.