SHOWING GOOD FAITH TOWARDS MUSLIMS

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SHOWING GOOD FAITH TOWARDS MUSLIMS

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• NATIONAL ORIGIN

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Title VII prohibits employers from basing
employment decisions on an individual's national
origin.

• Recruitment
• Hiring
• Promotion
• Transfer
• Wages and benefits

• Work assignments
• Leave
• Training and apprenticeship programs
• Discipline
• Layoff and termination

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Showing good faith towards Muslims

• Intense debate in the U.S. over the conflict
  between two critical values
• National Security
• Govts duty to protect its citizens
• 9/11 events
• Perpetrators were Muslims from Arab states
• Individual Rights and Civil Rights
• US Constitution Bill of Rights
• Protection against discrimination

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Showing good faith towards Muslims

• What are the elements of the Muslim
  religion/culture that other Americans may see as
  out of place at work?

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Showing good faith towards Muslims

• Explain the law relative to religious
  accommodation in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  Give an example that illustrates where you draw
  the line.

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Religious accommodation in the workplace

• The law requires
• Reasonable accommodations
• For sincerely held beliefs
• Who determines if belief is sincere?
• Unless the accommodation poses undue hardship
• What is undue hardship?

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Religious accommodation in the workplace

• Do you have to keep a Muslim woman who wears a
  hijab at your customer service desk? Explain.
• What does Disney do?
• Offer another position at equal or higher pay.
• What if employee declines the offer?

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Religious accommodation in the workplace

• http//www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/national-origin.ht
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• EEOC website cites the law and provides guidance
• Examples from EEOC website.
• Cases 1,2,4,9,13,17,18