In a rapid-fire legal update session, they discussed a variety of developments related to employment law, including:
Hayley Wells, an employment attorney, shared insights on a recent opinion by the Supreme Court regarding how employers should handle requests for religious accommodation. The opinion dealt with requests for religious accommodations under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, color, sex, and national origin.
Title VII requires an employer to accommodate an employee’s religion unless the employer can demonstrate that doing so would constitute an undue hardship on the company.
“Until this year, what constituted an undue hardship was an exceedingly low hurdle to clear,” said Wells. All an employer had to do to deny an employee’s request in the past was to show it represented a de minimis burden or minimum amount of inconvenience for the organization.
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Grace Kang has worked as an attorney specializing in intellectual property and business law for 20 years, the last 16 in the greater Los Angeles area. A graduate of Stanford Law School, she said h...