Showing posts with label Reasonable accommodation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reasonable accommodation. Show all posts
Friday, November 08, 2024

Firefighters Can Move Ahead With Title VII Claims Over Forced Leave to Accommodate Religious Objections to Covid Vaccine

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In Bingham   v. City of San Jose , (CA App., Oct. 30, 2024), a California state appeals court held that five San Jose firefighters who were ...
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

EEOC Sues Over Refusal to Accommodate Muslim Applicant's Worship Schedule

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On Sept. 30 the EEOC filed a suit under Title VII charging a Washington-state based staffing and recruiting agency with religious discrimina...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Company Settles EEOC Suit for $110,000, Compensating Employee Whose Religious Objections to Vaccine Were Ignored

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 A national furniture retailer, Hank's Furniture, has settled a Title VII religious discrimination lawsuit brought against it by the EEO...
Friday, June 21, 2024

EEOC Obtains Settlement for Failure to Accommodate Jewish Employee's Sabbath Observance

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The EEOC today announced that two related automotive hauling and logistics companies have agreed to a $65,000 settlement (plus an injunction...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Court Says States Lack Standing to Challenge EEOC's New PWFA Abortion-Accommodation Rule [CORRECTED]

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In States of Tennessee et. al. v. EEOC ,  (ED AR, June 17, 2024), an Arkansas federal district court held that 17 states that are plaintiffs...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Court Upholds Firing of Nurse with Religious Objections to Flu Vaccine

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In French v. Albany Medical Center ,  (ND NY, June 12, 2024), a New York federal district court upheld a hospital's firing of a nurse wh...
Friday, May 03, 2024

Feds Sue Texas Correctional Authorities for Failing to Accommodate Employee's Religious Head Covering

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The Justice Department today filed suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice alleging that it violated Title VII by failing to a...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

Accommodating Teacher's Anti-Transgender Beliefs Created Undue Hardship for School Under Title VII

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In Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Corporation , (SD IN, April 30, 2024), an Indiana federal district court in a 46-page opinion that s...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Arizona Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Have Required Transgender Individuals to Use Alternate Single Occupancy Showers in Public Schools

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On April 23, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed Arizona Senate bill 1182. ( Full text of veto letter .) The bill, titled the "Arizona ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Denial of Religious Exemption from Vaccine Mandate Did Not Violate Title VII or Constitution

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In White v. University of Washington ,  (WD WA, March 22, 2024), a Washington federal district court rejected Title VII as well as constitut...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

4th Circuit: Inmate's Claim for Religious Diet Should Move Forward

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In Pendleton v. Jividen , (4th Cir., March 20, 2024), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a West Virginia federal district court...
Friday, February 02, 2024

Muslim Employee Recovers $70,000 From Employer Who Refused Grooming Rule Accommodation

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The EEOC announced on Wednesday that it has entered a consent decree in its lawsuit against Blackwell Security Services, Inc.  The EEOC'...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Court Rules On Class Action Certification of Claims by Religious Objectors to Covid Vaccine

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 In Chavez v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District , (ND CA, Jan. 28,2024), a California federal district court refused to certify ...
Friday, January 26, 2024

County Revises Policy on Religious Head Coverings in Booking Photos in Settlement of Suit by Muslim Woman

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In a Settlement Agreement ( full text ) in Johnston v. Rutherford County, Tennessee,  (MD TN, 1/18/2024), the county has agreed to pay $100...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Nurse Sues Clinic for Refusing to Accommodate Her Objection to Prescribing Contraceptives

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A religious discrimination lawsuit was filed last week in a Florida federal district court by a nurse-practitioner who was fired from her po...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

School Did Not Violate Title VII in Denying Religious Exemption to Covid Rules

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In Russo v. Patchogue-Medford School District , (ED NY, Jan. 12, 2024), a New York federal district court held that a school district did no...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

EEOC Announces Settlements In 2 Religious Discrimination Lawsuits

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In the last several days, the EEOC has announced settlements in two unrelated Title VII religious discrimination suits filed by the agency. ...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Employees' Objections to Covid Vaccine Were Not Religious

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In Foshee v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP ,  (D MD, Oct. 17, 2023), a Maryland federal district court dismissed a Title VII religious disc...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Restaurant Settles EEOC Religious Discrimination Suit

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The EEOC announced last week that a now-closed restaurant in Atlanta that was part of Landry's, a national restaurant group that contin...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

EEOC Sues on Behalf of Muslim Employee

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 On Tuesday, the EEOC announced that it has filed a Title VII lawsuit against Blackwell Security Services, Inc., a hotel and condominium st...