An employer's duty to accommodate is notoriously anemic. Here the Buddhist is likely claiming the requirement forces the employee
Sent from Steve's iPhone > On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:34 PM, "Volokh, Eugene" <vol...@law.ucla.edu> wrote: > > An interesting lawsuit that Howard Friedman blogged about, > and that I thought I’d pass along. I assume that in this situation, the > employee would win only if there were someone else who could have easily done > the task instead of the plaintiff, yes? I would think that, both as a matter > of the Title VII religious accommodation rules and as a matter of the > company’s First Amendment rights, a company has to be able to express its > views notwithstanding a speaker-employee’s objections to conveying those > views. > > Eugene > > Feed: Religion Clause > Posted on: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 4:10 AM > Author: Howard Friedman > Subject: Fired Buddhist Employee Sues Claiming Failure To Accommodate > Religious Beliefs > > Courthouse News Service yesterday reported on a Title VII religious > discrimination lawsuit filed in Texas federal district court by the former > director of marketing communications for a wireless network services company. > Plaintiff Jef Mindrup, a Buddhist, claims he was fired because he refused to > comply with a request by the company's co-founder that he add Biblical verses > to the company's daily newsletter. His lawsuit alleges that the company > "fail[ed] to accommodate plaintiff on the basis of his religion by requiring > him to proselytize the Christian religion, a religion other than his own." > > View article... > > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as > private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; > people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) > forward the messages to others.
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