(December 4, 2017, 11:31 AM EST) -- CINCINNATI — An employee who was suspended after allegedly threatening his supervisor failed to show that the employer’s given reason was pretextual and that the real reason was because of his religious beliefs that prevented him from working on Saturdays, his degenerative joint disease and an earlier retaliation claim he filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Dec. 1 (Clayton Pierce v. General Motors LLC, et al., No. 16-2748, 6th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 24344)....