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Report Link That Old Time Religion.Fisher & Phillips, LLP - October 04, 2007 While employers stay focused on profits and maintaining a competitive edge in today’s marketplace, religion has begun playing a major role in employee relations. Title VII recognizes the important role that religious freedom plays in our society and its protection goes beyond mere negative restrictions to impose an affirmative obligation to reasonably accommodate religious beliefs. Report Link You Can’t Make Me Sell That!Fisher & Phillips, LLP - September 07, 2007 Companies today are being faced with a surge of employees who are conscientious objectors to some part of the employer's business on the basis of their religion. Stories range from taxi drivers refusing to transport customers who are carrying liquor to cashiers refusing to service customers purchasing pork. Report Link Deck The Halls With [Insert Non-Offensive Holiday Display Here]: Tips For Addressing Religious Expressions At Work.Helms Mulliss & Wicker - December 18, 2006 This week’s highly publicized Christmas tree clash at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has brought to the forefront an issue many employers face during the holiday season – how to handle religious displays at work. Some employers may come to the conclusion that it is simply best to forgo all holiday decorations and other expressions of belief at work. However, employers should be mindful that, in some cases, a total ban on religious displays in and of itself may violate federal discrimination law protections. Report Link Ban On Religious-Based Employee Group Upheld (pdf).Ogletree Deakins - February 21, 2006 A federal appellate court recently
held that an employer’s decision to ban
religious-based employee groups did
not violate Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964. According to the court, the
employer’s policy “treats all religious
positions alike – it excludes them all
from serving as the basis of a companyrecognized
affinity group.” Moranski v.
General Motors Corp., No. 05-1803,
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (December
29, 2005). Report Link Federal Court Upholds Firing of Employee Who Posted Bible Verses to Protest Diversity Program.Jackson Lewis LLP - January 15, 2004 In an unusual case involving allegations of religious discrimination, an employer did not act unlawfully when it discharged an employee after unsuccessfully counseling him about the impropriety of posting Bible verses denouncing homosexuality at his work station. Report Link Facts About Religious Discrimination.Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - (No Date) EEOC fact sheet on religious discrimination.
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