Topic
Religious Accommodation
431 published works
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Passover & Easter: A Time to Reflect on Religious Discrimination Issues
With Passover and Easter coming up this week, it seems timely to revisit the laws regarding religious discrimination and accommodation. Fortunately for you (and me), the Employment & Labor Insider…
Iowa Employment Law Blog
Are Employee Religious Freedoms in Jeopardy?
There is an interesting op-ed in today's Des Moines Register concerning religious discrimination in the workplace. The author, Lake Lambert III, is a professor of Religion at Wartburg College in…
Reilly Workplace Investigations Blog
Dress Code v. Religious Beliefs: Who wins?
By Debra Reilly
The EEOC takes religious accommodation cases very seriously when it comes to "dress code violations," and employers are oftentimes losing on the "undue hardship" defense. Tatoos: In 2005, the EEOC…
World of Employment
Oregon Religious Accommodation Bill Becomes Law
Last week Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski signed Senate Bill 786, which will require employers to more extensively accommodate employees' religious practices and observation. The bill passed both the Oregon House and…
Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
HR GENERALIST RESOURCES: EEOC Issues New Compliance Assistance on Religious Discrimination and Accommodation
By Adam R. Long
On July 22, 2008, the EEOC issued a new section of its Compliance Manual addressing the subject of religious discrimination. The section "provides guidance and instructions for investigating and analyzing charges…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Top-5 Labor SSRN Downloads
Sue Irion, The [Un]Constitutionality of the NLRA's Religious Accomodation Provision (96).Laura J. Cooper, Mario Bognano, & Stephen F. Befort, How and Why Labor Arbitrators Decide Discipline and Discharge Cases: An…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Top-5 Labor SSRN Downloads
Sue Irion, The [Un]Constitutionality of the NLRA's Religious Accomodation Provision (82).Raja Raghunath, Stacking the Deck: Privileging "Employer Free Choice" over Industrial Democracy in the Card Check Debate (77).Alexander J.S. Colvin,…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Does Religious Observance and the Workplace Mix?
I argue strongly in a recent paper that it is inappropriate for employers to provide workplace chaplains in the workplace for their employees:In addition to political speeches, more companies are…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Religious Accommodation Cannot Require Excessive Absenteeism From Work
Howard Bashman of How Appealing brings word of an interesting religious discrimination case decided recently by the Fourth Circuit:A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
Lancaster Law Blog
Religious Discrimination: Employer’s Responses to Workplace Issues
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is featuring an article entitled Religion at work: A growing number of discrimination cases center on employees' beliefs noting that a post 9/11 world has increased the…