Section 32 Reasonable Accommodation for Religious Beliefs or Practices

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq., prohibits discrimination based on religion, among other grounds. “[R]eligion” is expressly defined by Title VII to include “all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief, unless an employer demonstrates that [it] is unable to reasonably accommodate to an employee’s or prospective employee’s religious observance or practice without undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business.” 42 U.S.C. §...