This technical note offers managers using a meaningful understanding of their rights and obligations when an employee's religious beliefs or practices conflict with his or her work responsibilities and provides a summary of spiritual discrimination law in the United States. The evaluation will touch on deliberate discrimination and harassment ("I am firing you because you are Christian/Jewish/Other"), kinds of religious discrimination which are easily identifiable and resolvable. Less obviously, U.S. law requires that companies provide "reasonable accommodation" whenever a religiously neutral company practice interferes with an employee's religious practice; this reasonable accommodation doctrine is more sophisticated and nuanced.
Supplying reasonable accommodation presents barriers for managers that are as packed that is legalistically as they can be financially perfidious. This note aims to aid managers identify blatantly illegal practices, but it also plans to assist management in navigating the gray areas where the law is used or underdeveloped. Eventually, while digesting the advice given in this note, managers must remember that legal solutions, not managerial ones are described by this evaluation.
PUBLICATION DATE: December 28, 2015 PRODUCT #: UV7099-HCB-ENG
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