How far must an employer go to accommodate an employee’s religious practices under federal law? Unlike federal law, California law applies the same “undue hardship” standard to accommodating religious practices as it applies to accommodating disabilities. The same undue hardship test, he said, should apply to religious accommodation under federal law as to disability accommodation. The court probably will make an employer’s duty to accommodate its employees’ religious practices under Title VII closer to the facially more demanding duty employers have under California law. Lower courts applying federal law will have to apply any modified test to future cases with unknowable factual variations.

Source: thestar May 08, 2023 20:26 UTC