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Showing posts with label religious discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religious discrimination. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Must you accommodation an employee's religion not to attend DEI training? Believe it or not, it might depend on the training.

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"Your respectful workplace training is against my religion; count me out." That's what one employee told his employer when it ...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

A lesson in how NOT to testify

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Congresswoman Elise Stefanik: Ms. Magill at Penn, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's rules or code of conduct? Yes or...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

This case perfectly illustrates religious accommodations post-Groff

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Elimelech Shmi Hebrew is a devout follower of the Hebrew Nation, a religion that requires its followers to keep their hair and beard long — ...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Employers need to be more vigilant than ever with anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim bias

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Not all Jews are Zionists colonizers, and not all Muslims are Hamas terrorists. In fact, most aren't. Moreover, you can oppose the polic...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Employees shouldn’t have to choose between their religion and their job

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Is there any legitimate reason a concierge must be clean shaven as a condition of employment? That question is at the center of a new lawsui...
Monday, August 7, 2023

Work and religion aren’t a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup

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Everyone's relationship with God — whether you call that deity God, Yahweh, Jesus, Allah, Vishnu, Buddha, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Can an employer require that employees be of a specific faith? Believe it or not, it depends.

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"Mature orthodox Christian faith as defined by the Apostles' Creed." That is one of the qualifications listed in a job posting...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

An employee may not have a right to receive a reasonable accommodation, but they at least have a right to conversation about it

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The EEOC has sued Mercy Health St. Mary's for religious discrimination, claiming that it violated Title VII by rescinding a job offer to...
Monday, April 10, 2023

7th Circuit decides the issue of religious rights vs. trans rights … and trans rights won

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I really wanted to move on this week from writing about transgender rights. But then the 7th Circuit had to go and decide that a student'...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

6th Circuit confirms that private employers can do private employer things

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Four employees of the J.M. Smucker Company sought religious exemptions from the company's Covid vaccine mandate. When the company refus...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Your religion isn’t a license to discriminate (but we may need to accommodate you anyway)

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Pronouns confuse me. It's not that I want to misgender anyone. In fact, quite to the contrary, I try really hard to get people's pro...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Is God anti-union?

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Thomas Ross, a security officer employed by Allied Universal in San Francisco, has filed a discrimination charge with the EEOC against Serv...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Forced religion and work do not mix

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I believe that everyone's relationship with God (whether you call that deity God, Yahweh, Jesus, Allah, Vishnu, Buddha, something else, ...
Monday, June 13, 2022

LGBTQ+ rights vs. religious liberty

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"It's an abomination to God. Rainbow is not meant to be displayed as a sign for sexual gender." That's what Daniel Snyder ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Accountability always starts at the top

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How do you respond to an employee who states that the Covid-19 vaccine is a plot by "the Jews" to exterminate people? Does your an...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

Coronavirus Update 11-11-2021: Religious groups tell 5th Circuit that the OSHA vaccine mandate is a “sin against God"

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In a filing made with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the petition seeking to strike down OSHA's "vaccine or test&q...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Coronavirus Update 11-10-2021: Federal judge grants injunction victory to United on its vaccine mandates, but signals that this war is far from over

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A U.S. federal district court judge ruled that an employer can impose on its employees a Covid-19 vaccine mandate that provides unpaid leave...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Coronavirus Update 10-28-2021: EEOC publishes its own internal Religious Accommodation Request form

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"Jon, we have so many employees asking us for religious accommodations from our workplace Covid rules, including our vaccine mandate. ...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Coronavirus Update 8-19-2021: The (Un)Healthy American, along with other more reputable organizations, help Americans dodge vaccine mandates

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Meet Peggy Hall. She runs a website called The Healthy American .  What is The Healthy American? For starters, it's a website that NewsG...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Coronavirus Update 8–10–2021: Vaccines and religions accommodation requests

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"I need an accommodation for your mandatory vaccination policy. The vaccine is against my religion." As more employers roll out va...