Title VII - Religious Discrimination - Employer's Duty to Reasonably Accommodate Employee's Religious Practices
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Authors
Bernstein, John H.
Issue Date
1976
Volume
9
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|Larry G. Hardison, a member of the Worldwide Church of God, was an employee of Trans World Airlines. Hardison's religion requires that its members refrain from work on its Sabbath, observed each week from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. A collective bargaining agreement, part of which contained provisions relating to shift clauses, days off, and vacations, covered Hardison's job at TWA. Hardison initially worked at night as a stores clerk in a department in which he had relatively high seniority. He transferred to another department in which day work was available, but as a consequence, he had the second lowest seniority position in that department. As a result, his ability to select days off was considerably diminished. Yet the stores department which employed Hardison operated twenty-four hours per day, seven days a week. Hardison failed to report to work on three consecutively scheduled Saturdays. He was found guilty of insubordination at a discharge hearing and was terminated by TWA...
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9 Creighton L. Rev. 795 (1975-1976)
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Creighton University School of Law