Religious Discrimination
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The other day, out of the blue, I got a call from Jon Jacobs, a writer for eFinancialCareers, a financial services industry job site. Jon asked me if I had [...]
War, Pestilence, and the Second Coming: Is your Workplace Ready?
Starting the New Year this morning with a quick look at the news, I saw this AP story: “Poll: Americans see gloom, doom in 2007″
This story reports on an Associated Press-AOL News poll about Americans’ predictions for 2007.
Poll findings include:
60% think the U.S. will be the victim of a terrorist attack.
60% think it likely [...]
EEOC Takes On Big Labor, Big Law
Two items here, tied together only by the common theme of EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) aggressiveness.
EEOC takes on Big Labor
The EEOC took on the nation’s largest public employee union, AFSCME, when the union insisted on dues payments from a man who objected on religious grounds to the union’s support of abortion and same-sex marriage. [...]
Religious Discrimination Against a Witch?
This is too weird.
But not too weird to cost the employer some attorneys’ fees if this witch has a lawyer!
Questions:
Do some people (adults) seriously claim to be witches?
If they sincerely believe this is true and consider it to be a religious belief, are they protected against discrimination based on this belief?
Is Refusal to Support Christian Employee Group Religious Discrimination?
May an employer refuse to provide religious employee groups the same support it provides racial/ethnic groups under a diversity initiative?
A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals case decided a few months ago addressed this question, concluding that the employer, GM, could do so without violating the religious discrimination prohibition of Title VII of the Civil [...]
The Changing Role of Religion in the Workplace: Workplace Religious Freedom Act May Be the Next Civil Rights Law
The Workplace Religious Freedom Act may change the way companies must treat religion in the workplace, granting employees many more rights. Read here for some more detail!
Religious Tolerance: Going A Little Too Far
Today I read a religious discrimination story from Suits in the Workplace.
The case discussed involved a manager who hired only people with a close religious bond to him, engaged in office prayer, gave business advantages to his coreligionists, sang religious songs and left religious materials on the plaintiff’s desk. The plaintiff sued for religious [...]
