Religious Discrimination
What is $5 million in punitive damages? page 541
In 2016 Religious discrimination accounted for _____% of charges filed with the EEOC.
What is 4.6%? page 537
Title VII requires employers to accommodate an employee's religious practices and beliefs to the extent it does not cause an ________ _________.
What is undue hardship? (page 549)
Title VII permits religion to be a ___________ if it is reasonably necessary to the employer's particular normal business operations.
What is BFOQ (Bona Fide Occupational Qualification) (page 550)
This act was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1997.
What is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act? page 551
True or False? The duty to accommodate attaches to the conflict itself, not to when the conflict arises.
What case determined that religious organizations have full authority to determine who their religious leaders are and to apply their religious dictates even when those dictates conflict with workplace anti-discrimination laws.
What is Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC? page 540
"includes all aspects of religious observance and practice as well as belief, unless an employer demonstrates that he is unable to reasonably accommodate an employee's or prospective employee's religious observance or practice without undue hardship on the conduct of the employer's business" is
What is religion defined by Title VII? (page 543)
One of the most active areas under religious discrimination lately has been ________ ________.
What is religious harassment? (page 551)
The first prong in establishing a prima facie case of religious discrimination:
What is the person holds a sincere religious belief that conflicts with an employment requirement? (page 544)
This was signed into law by President Trump and went into effect May 4, 2017.
What is the Religious Liberty Executive Order? Page 545
This case established that the employee need not be a member of an organized religion at all to have a religious conflict with an employer.
What is Frazee v. Illinois Department of Employment Security? page 543
When the employer discovers a religious conflict between the employer's policy and the employee's religion, the employer's first responsibility is to attempt ___________?
What is accommodation? (page 543)
In 1993 Congress passed the _____________ in order to ensure the free exercise of religious practices.
What is RFRA? (Religious Freedom Restoration Act) (page 551)
The second prong in establishing a prima facie case of religious discrimination:
What is the person has informed the employer of the conflict? (page 544)
This organization relaxed its rules on dress code in 2014 when it came to the wearing of beards, turbans, yarmulkes, and Wiccans.
What is the U.S. Military? page 546
The increase in religious litigation began when workplace activities and harassment issues surrounding religious practices became more prominent in the late 1980's and early 1990's with rising popularity of _____ ______ and ______.
What is Fundamentalist Christianity and televangelism? page 539
This case established guidelines (by the U.S. Supreme Court) for determining what constitutes undue hardship in the process of attempting reasonable accommodations.
What is Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison? (page 550)
The top organized religion in the United States according the writing of the text is _________.
What is Christianity? (page 537)
The third prong in establishing a prima facie case of religious discrimination:
What is the person was discharged or disciplined for failing to comply with the conflicting employment requirement? (page 544)
What is Peterson v. Hewlett Packard Co.? page 553
Where there are odds between an employer's policy and an employee's religious practices.
The U.S. Supreme Court held that in attempting to accommodate the employee, all that is required is that the employer attempt to make a ________ accommodation.
What is reasonable? (page 549)
The duty to accommodate only applies to religious ______, not religious _________.
What is practices, beliefs? (page 536)
If the employee establishes the prima facie case, the _________ shifts to the employer to show it offered a reasonable accommodation to the employee or that it could not reasonably accommodate the employee without incurring an undue hardship.
What is burden? (page 544)