Employers face possible claims for failure to accommodate even where there is no actual knowledge of a need for accommodation
Posted on June 5, 2015
Posted in Religious Discrimination, Title VII
Back in March, I posted about the case before the United States Supreme Court involving a girl who claimed that she was discriminated against because of her religion when Abercrombie & Fitch didn’t hire her because of her headscarf. The Tenth Circuit had found that because the plaintiff did not inform Abercrombie before its hiring […]
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Does an employee have to specifically ask for a religious accommodation?
Posted on March 6, 2015
Posted in Religious Discrimination, Title VII
The United States Supreme Court heard argument this past week on this very issue in the case of EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc., a case appealed from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Samantha Elauf was a teenager in Tulsa, Oklahoma who applied to work at an Abercrombie & Fitch store in 2008. […]
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