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Showing posts with label religious discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religious discrimination. Show all posts
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Forced religion at work is a very bad idea

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It started with an Easter email sent agency-wide from the top: "He has risen!" The message praised Christianity as "the found...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Civil-rights enforcement isn't a culture-war trophy

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The Wall Street Journal just profiled EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas under the headline "Trump's DEI Slayer Is Just Getting Started....
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Religious "purity tests" are a Title VII accommodation no-no

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"Are you really that religious?" is the wrong question for any employer to ask of an employee seeking a religious accommodation. T...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Let's count the ways Pete Hegseth's speech would get your company sued

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If Pete Hegseth were your CEO, I'd be drafting your EEOC position statement tomorrow. You're not running the Department of War (née ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

The Feds say that proselytizing at work is okay, but it shouldn't be

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"The power of Christ compels you!" … could soon be coming to a workplace near you. The Trump administration has issued new guidanc...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

When rights collide: religious beliefs vs. gender identity in the workplace

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An employee tells HR, "I can't use my coworker's preferred pronouns. It's against my religion." What now? This isn...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Managing employees' food allergies and preferences in the workplace

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One employee is vegan. Another is allergic to shellfish. Another is lactose intolerant. Another has Celiac disease and can't eat gluten....
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Faith, fetus photos, fired: How Title VII grounded a Southwest termination

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"This is what you supported during your Paid Leave with others at the Women's MARCH in DC… You truly are Despicable in so many ways...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Holy hypocrisy: When "religious freedom" only protects one religion

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"My Administration will not tolerate … unlawful conduct targeting Christians.…My Administration will ensure that any unlawful and impro...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Neurodivergence is not an excuse for racism

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"He's on the spectrum" is not an excuse for racism. I've seen more than one person attempt to justify Elon Musk's Nazi...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Must you accommodation an employee's religion not to attend DEI training? Believe it or not, it might depend on the training.

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"Your respectful workplace training is against my religion; count me out." That's what one employee told his employer when it ...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

A lesson in how NOT to testify

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Congresswoman Elise Stefanik: Ms. Magill at Penn, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's rules or code of conduct? Yes or...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

This case perfectly illustrates religious accommodations post-Groff

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Elimelech Shmi Hebrew is a devout follower of the Hebrew Nation, a religion that requires its followers to keep their hair and beard long — ...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Employers need to be more vigilant than ever with anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim bias

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Not all Jews are Zionists colonizers, and not all Muslims are Hamas terrorists. In fact, most aren't. Moreover, you can oppose the polic...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Employees shouldn’t have to choose between their religion and their job

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Is there any legitimate reason a concierge must be clean shaven as a condition of employment? That question is at the center of a new lawsui...
Monday, August 7, 2023

Work and religion aren’t a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup

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Everyone's relationship with God — whether you call that deity God, Yahweh, Jesus, Allah, Vishnu, Buddha, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Can an employer require that employees be of a specific faith? Believe it or not, it depends.

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"Mature orthodox Christian faith as defined by the Apostles' Creed." That is one of the qualifications listed in a job posting...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

An employee may not have a right to receive a reasonable accommodation, but they at least have a right to conversation about it

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The EEOC has sued Mercy Health St. Mary's for religious discrimination, claiming that it violated Title VII by rescinding a job offer to...
Monday, April 10, 2023

7th Circuit decides the issue of religious rights vs. trans rights … and trans rights won

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I really wanted to move on this week from writing about transgender rights. But then the 7th Circuit had to go and decide that a student...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

6th Circuit confirms that private employers can do private employer things

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Four employees of the J.M. Smucker Company sought religious exemptions from the company's Covid vaccine mandate. When the company refus...