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Religious Accommodation
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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Harvard Conference on Religious Accommodation
Harvard Law will host a conference in early April, April 3 to April 5, titled Religious Accommodation in the Age of Civil Rights. It includes a pretty amazing line-up. Here's…
Employment Law Worldview
Trouble bubbles after Muslim worker refuses to sell champagne at M&S – the law
It was reported in the UK press just before Christmas that Marks and Spencer was forced to apologise to a customer after a Muslim employee refused to handle alcohol and…
Employment Discrimination Report
Beard Worth $50,000 To the EEOC
The title is a little flip, but the subject matter of accommodation for religious practices is serious. A Muslim employee of McDonald’s in Fresno requested a religious accommodation: the right to…
EEOC Year-End Countdown
Take Two? EEOC Moves For Reconsideration After Losing High-Profile Religious Discrimination Case Over Abercrombie’s “Look Policy”
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Howard M. Wexler We previously reported here on the EEOC’s stunning defeat in the Tenth Circuit in the case of EEOC v. Abercrombie &…
Employment Discrimination Report
$70,000 For Failing To Accommodate Jehovah’s Witness
On October 26th, we recommended an article in the Wall Street Journal (page B1) about the increasing number of claims filed by employees of religious discrimination. The reporter observed that…
Employment Discrimination Report
Prayer Time Accommodation For Muslim Employees Ruled An “Undue Hardship”
On April 16, 2013, we posted about an employment discrimination case where a federal judge denied summary judgment to a company which allegedly fired 80 Somali Muslim employees for requesting time for…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Triggering the Duty of Accommodating Religion
In the religion context, what, exactly,triggers the duty to accommodate? Two recent contrasting opinions cast light –or maybe shadows – on the issue. In Adeyeye v. Heartland Sweeteners, LLC,721 F.3d…
EEOC Year-End Countdown
Where’s the Beef? Employer Defeats EEOC’s Religious Discrimination Pattern Or Practice Case By Establishing Undue Hardship Defense
By Gerald L. Maatman Jr. and Howard M. Wexler In both disability and religious discrimination cases employers, especially larger ones, are often taken to task by the EEOC for arguing…
Employment & Labor
EEOC Litigation Over Religious Accommodation Issues
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. The Tenth Circuit’s recent decision in EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch, No. 11-5110 (10th Cir. Oct. 1, 2013) – concerning an applicant who was not…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
Tenth Circuit Overturns EEOC Win On Religious Accommodation
In a 2-1 decision, the Tenth Circuit reversed summary judgment in favor of the EEOC on its claim that Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc. failed to provide an applicant with…