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.
