Fox Business host John Stossel on Tuesday night lamented that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who was not hired at clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch when she wore a headscarf to the job interview.
“This is why people don’t hire in America anymore,” Stossel said on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.” “Nobody can understand the laws, and if you hire someone in a protected class, you may be sued if you ever try to fire them. Or if you don’t hire them you may be sued.”
“These laws are meant to help the minority group, but they backfire,” he continued.
Fox host Bill O’Reilly seemed unfazed by the ruling.
“If I were the Abercrombie guy, I would have hired her with the headscarf,” he said. “What difference does it make? I would have started to sell headscarves.”
Stossel told O’Reilly, “You ought to get to hire anybody you want, but that’s not what the law said.”
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