EEOC issues new guidelines on religion at the job
July 25, 2008 by Jim GiulianoPosted in: Employment law, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
Responding to confusion about how religious beliefs affect days off , dress codes and other at-work issues, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has put together new guidelines for employers on how to treat employee requests involving religious observances.
A particularly helpful section of the guidelines lists 55 examples of the types of religious-accommodation requests employees might make and how to treat those requests – based on court rulings involving disputes described in the examples.
The EEOC fields about 2,900 complaints a year from employees who claim they’ve suffered some sort of discrimination based on their religious beliefs. That’s a small slice of all the discrimination complaints that come before the EEOC, but the number has been rising ever since 1992.
Click here to see the full text of the guidelines.
Tags: eeoc, equal employment opportunity commission, religious beliefs
May 11th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Subject: Could Something of Historic Proportions Be Happening???
About the author via Google…
Pamela “Atlas” Geller began her publishing career at The New York Daily News
and subsequently took over operation of The New York Observer as Associate
Publisher. She left The Observer after the birth of her fourth child but
remained involved in various projects including American Associates, Ben
Gurion University and being Senior Vice-President Strategic Planning and
Performance Evaluation at The Brandeis School.
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by Pam Geller
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books in six
languages, and have studied history all my life. I think there is something
monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis,
or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes, these exist but they are
merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a
sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I
know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it.
Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within
our country that has been evolving for about 10 – 15 years. The pace has
dramatically quickened in the past two.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our
economy. Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no
longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are
worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically,
read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing,
school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election
(now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial
that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever
think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our
sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that
radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like
ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what
purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall,
major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of
collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire
government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and
know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is staggering in its
length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x 10. And we are at war
with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same
religion who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have
the opportunity to do so.
And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run
so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska . All
of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen
fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is
unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his
idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our
military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it.
Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important.)
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.
This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never,
ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us
along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces
into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when
it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral
German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former
smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German
knew next to nothing.. What they did know was that he was associated with
groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they
disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory
and promises.. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he
was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even
newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would
bully them into submission.
And then he was duly elected to office, with a full-throttled economic
crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the
controls of government power, department by department, person by person,
bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name,
where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side?
He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies
for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the
children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better
jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across
Europe , and across the world.
He did it with a compliant media – Did you know that? And he did this all in
the name of justice and .. . .. change. And the people surely got what they
voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.) Read your history
books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names,
laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious
in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not
yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy
troublemaker. He was right, though ..
Don’t forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe
.It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and
universities. And in less than six years – a shorter time span than just two
terms of the U. S. presidency – it was rounding up its own citizens,
killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and
neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The
road to Hell is paved with them.
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Since many of you enjoy senior citizen status or will sometime in the not
too distant future, I thought you might be interested in this information.
IN GOD WE TRUST
Every body that is on this mailing list is either a senior citizen, is
getting close or knows somebody that is.
Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least) of the “stimulus”
bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior
citizens. The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax
evader, Tom Daschle was credited today by Bloomberg with the following
statement.
Bloomberg: “Daschle says health-care reform will not be pain free. Seniors
should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of
treating them.”
If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that Senators
and Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or very
low co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their lives and are
not subject to this new law if it passes.
Please use the power of the internet to get this message out. Talk it up at
the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one year and nine
months. We have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction
the Obama administration and its allies have begun and in the interim, we
can make our voices heard! Lets do it!
If you disagree, don’t do anything.
January 7th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
I am hoping that this does not become an Obama bashing topic as some people are prone to do. Stick to the subject at hand. There are other forums for that.