Second post in our series.
NOTE FROM ROBIN: Last month, I posted the first in what will be a series of very basic explanations of the federal laws that govern the workplace.
I could not resist having religious accommodation as my topic this time. We are in an intensely religious time of year. Passover starts today, and it's also Good Friday for most Christians. Ramadan started on April 2 and will run through May 2. Easter Sunday will be day after tomorrow for most Christians (or a week from Sunday for Eastern Orthodox Christians).
Subsequent posts will get into other areas of employment law, including retaliation, disability accommodation, harassment, and wage-hour. If there is a topic that you'd like to see covered, please send me an email or leave a comment here.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, color, and religion. As we discussed last time, "discrimination" means treating someone differently (less favorably) because of one or more of these characteristics.
Very straightforward, right? All an employer has to do is treat everybody exactly the same way and there should be no problem?
Treating everybody the same -- equally -- is indeed a good start. But sometimes, treating everybody exactly the same isn't fair. Sometimes doing the right thing requires us to treat people differently. Parents know this. In the employment context, that obligation to treat people differently is...
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