It's not hard to believe at all for me. I worked for a Muslim family that did the same thing. They wanted so very hard to do the right thing by us...almost to a fault.
One day I went looking for the bindery production manager, who was a black fellow and couldn't find him anywhere. I went up front and the receptionist was not there either. I finally went into the general manager (one of the family) and asked where the bindery manager was (I needed his figures to set schedules as I was the production manager).
He just looked at me as if I should have known and said, "Well, it's Martin Luther King day." as if that explained everything.
They had given only the black folks the day off paid.
It's how they roll, man.