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Employment Law Update: Workplace Religious Accommodations and Islamic Prayer

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Few issues are more sensitive for employers than accommodating employees’ religious practices and observances. In recent years, Muslim employees and their employers have struggled with how to handle the religious requirement...more

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Tips for Restaurants, Retailers When Faced With Sabbath Day Requests

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Imagine you manage a busy restaurant, and you are working on the schedule for next week. Saturday is your busiest day, and you need all hands on deck, so you need to schedule everyone for that day. Just when you have the...more

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Chutzpah and the shifting defenses to requests for religious accommodation

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Chutzpah is a Yiddish word derived from the Aramaic ḥuṣpāh. It means impudence, gall, and an audacious disregard for rules. In the world of employment law, it can aptly describe employees who try to get what they want...more

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New Year’s Review of Legal Changes in Employment Accommodation

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The New Year serves as a time to take note of some significant employment law changes in the past year to longstanding rules and requirements regarding employer accommodation obligations. This article addresses a U.S. Supreme...more

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Religious accommodations, Part 1: What’s a “religion”?

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On September 25 a federal court in New York dismissed a lawsuit accusing an employer of failing to accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs as a member of the “Temple of the Healing Spirits” located in “Deland city,...more

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Hair, beards, and the invigorated duty to accommodate religious practices

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Hair. In some religions it is considered a sacred gift from God that should not be cut. In other religions, it must be styled, covered, or cut in particular ways. These religious practices may result in employees’ requesting...more

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SCOTUS Makes it Harder for Employers to Establish an Undue Burden Defense in Religious Accommodation Cases

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In the flurry of controversial U.S. Supreme Court rulings issued at the end of this term, one unanimous opinion flew under the radar which impacts how employers must accommodate religious practices and expressions of their...more

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The Supreme Court’s New Test for Determining Undue Hardship for Religious Accommodation Requests— A “Substantial” Change

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In an Opinion dated June 29, 2023, the United States Supreme Court unanimously created a new, more difficult standard for employers to apply in weighing the burden a worker’s religious accommodation request would impose on...more

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Supreme Court Clarifies Religious Accommodation Undue Burden Test Under Title VII

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Yesterday, in Gerald E. Groff v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, the United States Supreme Court clarified what an employer must show if it denies an employee’s request for a workplace accommodation based on religious...more

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Religious accommodation at the Supreme Court

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Groff v. DeJoy, a case I blogged about in January. The case is about what standard of "undue hardship" should apply in religious accommodation cases. Under every...more

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Will U.S. Supreme Court Place an Undue Hardship on Employers When It Decides Groff v. DeJoy?

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The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether its own definition of “undue hardship” with respect to religious accommodation requests, which employers have relied upon for more than 45 years, remains valid when it hears...more

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Top Workplace Law Stories You May Have Missed from January 2023

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years — and this past...more

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Supreme Court Poised to Increase Obligations for Accommodating Workers’ Religion

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Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to revisit the threshold for accommodating workers’ religious beliefs or practices that clash with workplace requirements. The current standard doesn’t require employers to...more

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SCOTUS will review religious accommodation standard

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"Undue hardship" defense is likely to become tougher. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the undue hardship standard in religious accommodation cases. We expect the standard to become more difficult for employers...more

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Dear Littler: How Do We Handle Requests for Time Off for Religious Observance?

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Dear Littler:  We are a retail store with locations across the country.  We are open seven days a week, and our sales staff have rotating shifts to provide coverage throughout the week.  A number of employees in several of...more

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Washington Court Revives Public Employee’s Religious Accommodation Claim

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Adelina Suarez was a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) who worked for a state-operated certified residential nursing facility for vulnerable, disabled adults in Yakima, Washington. Throughout her employment, which was covered...more

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OFCCP Week In Review: November 2021

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The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more

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EEOC Sues Walmart For Religious Discrimination

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Retail Giant Refused Wisconsin Employee's Schedule Change Request to Observe the Sabbath, Federal Agency Charges - MILWAUKEE - Walmart Inc. and Walmart Stores East, LP violated federal law when they refused a Christian...more

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Five Tips For Handling Tricky Religious Accommodations

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When an employee’s religious beliefs conflict with a workplace policy, you need to consider whether a reasonable accommodation can be made, without creating an undue hardship. Many times, these religious accommodations...more

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