Religion

586,860 and 3/4 reasons not to question the sincerity of an employee’s religious beliefs

June 13, 2017 | by Eric B. Meyer

Nearly four years ago, I blogged here about a complaint that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed against a West Virginia coal company. The lawsuit alleged that the employer failed to accommodate an employee who requested not to use a biometric hand scanner to track time and attendance.

Why? Because of the relationship between hand-scanning technology and the Mark of the Beast and Antichrist discussed in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament.

Of course. Continue reading

The best way to prepare your workplace now for President Trump’s new Religious Freedom Executive Order

May 5, 2017 | by Eric B. Meyer

Yeah, that’s basically it. Keep calm and carry on. Continue reading

Our day at Epcot: Food, characters and, yes, an employment-law lesson

January 6, 2017 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Octopus 🐙 appetizer for the kid? Yes, please 😘// #epcot🌐 #epcotcenter #epcot #disneyworld

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Remember Hank the Septopus from Disney’s Finding Dory? I found his missing tentacle. And, my son ate it!

Let’s hear it for the boy!

Woman fired for refusing to process same-sex marriage licenses loses her own bias claim

December 20, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

I’ll go ahead and file this one under “Wa Wa Waaah!”

Swastika cupcakes?!?

December 1, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Yesterday, I read this story from David Moye on Huffington Post about a young Jewish girl’s birthday party at which the guests — friends of the birthday girl — were allowed to frost cupcakes. Well, it seems that two of the party guests decided that it would be funny to frost a chocolate swastika into their cupcakes and upload photos to Snapchat.

The mortified mother of the birthday girl called it a “teachable moment” about the horrors of the Holocaust, which, ironically, the swastika frosters had just learned about in school.

So, what does this have to do with your workplace?

Got young employees? They pray to different gods? Then, you need this EEOC fact sheet.

July 26, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Less colloquially, last Friday, the EEOC released this one-page fact sheet “designed to help young workers better understand their rights and responsibilities under the federal employment anti-discrimination laws prohibiting religious discrimination.” You can read the EEOC press release here.

New EEOC lawsuit highlights the discrimination risks of mandatory flu shots

June 7, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Last week, the EEOC announced (here) that it had filed this lawsuit against a Massachusetts employer, in which it alleges that the company violated federal law when it refused to effectively accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs.

It’s a wicked pissah!

You guys don’t have to let employees pray to a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Probably.

April 18, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Even a true “Pastafarian.”

Five employment cases blowing up my DropBox and Pocket

January 7, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

You know, being a client of the Blogger King has its perks. (That’s me. I’m the Blogger King). When I’m not litigating and counseling on employment-related issues, I’m taking blog post requests and emailing weekly updates of HR goodies that don’t make it onto the blog.

But, with my DropBox and Pocket chock full of recent cases, I’ll summarize the recent biggies.

How the heck do you accommodate the religious beliefs of hundreds of employees?

January 6, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Yesterday, I had one of those moments. You know the ones.

For me, it was when a client asked me when I was going to blog about the Muslim workers in Colorado who were denied prayer breaks and, then, allegedly fired for protesting.

So, I did what any self respecting employment-lawyer-blogger would do: I Googled “Muslim Prayer Employee Protest Colorado Fired,” and I promised a client-inspired Wednesday post.