According to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it is illegal for employers to discriminate against employees based on religion. The law also requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for employees’ religious requirements when work and worship...
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Is it Unlawful to Fire an Employee with a Religious Objection?
Brownsburg High School initially offered an accommodation to a music teacher who raised a religious objection to the use of transgender students’ preferred names and pronouns. When the accommodation, using last names only, did not solve the issue, the school told the...
What Does the New PUMP Act Provision Mean For Employers?
Last year, President Biden signed the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act (“PUMP Act”) into law. The PUMP Act serves to expand existing protections for breastfeeding parents through the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Although some portions of the PUMP Act go into...