Granting Plea For Religious Liberty In Queens
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The Law prohibits discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations based on actual or perceived religion or creed. It is illegal for employers, housing providers, business owners, and providers of public accommodations in New York City to treat someone differently because of their faith.
There are several avenues for filing religious discrimination complaints. The EEOC is the primary federal agency that enforces discrimination laws in the United States and filing a complaint with the EEOC is typically the precondition to instituting a civil action.
SB 31 promotes religious freedom and ensures that California is protecting basic civil and human rights for all.
The New York State Human Rights Law prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on the basis of several “protected characteristics.” It is against the law for someone to discriminate against you because of one of these protected characteristics: Creed/Religion. Disability. Gender Identity or Expression.
Federal laws excuse employers from providing religious accommodations if the business would suffer “minimal hardship” in doing so. However, to be excused in California, an employer must prove that the religious accommodation in question causes a “significant difficulty or expense” to the business.
Thus, reasonable accommodation, in the religious discrimination context, means job modifications that enable an individual to exercise personal religious beliefs, including (without limitation) scheduling changes to permit religious observances, permitting certain dress and grooming practices, and permitting employees ...
New York has a rich history of religious diversity, a tradition conceived in our nation's Bill of Rights and enshrined by laws that protect everyone's right to practice their faith freely.
The law requires that employers make an effort to reasonably accommodate an employee's religious practices, so long as it does not cause an undue hardship for the employer. Workplace harassment on the basis of religious affiliation or belief is unlawful.