Religion

The EEOC updated its COVID-19 guidance again with new information on retaliation

November 18, 2021 | by Eric B. Meyer

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While nerds like me were flooding LinkedIn with status updates about Sixth Circuit this and OSHA ETS that, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was ~~hosting a secret “virtual dialogue” with the employer Illuminati about retaliation~~ updating its COVID-19 Technical Assistance to include additional information on retaliation.

Anything 🤯? Continue reading

Drop that COVID-19 religious accommodation exemption form says one EEOC Commissioner

November 12, 2021 | by Eric B. Meyer

form by Jason Tropp from the Noun Project

Before I tell you which COVID-19 religious accommodation form you need to trash right away, don’t forget that today is the big, free live Zoom on the new OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate. Join me and my partners Amy Epstein Gluck, David Renner, Sid Steinberg, Gordon Berger at Noon ET. Register here (https://bit.ly/OSHAETSZoom). Continue reading

Is indefinite unpaid leave irreparably harmful to employees that don’t get vaccinated?

November 10, 2021 | by Eric B. Meyer

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On Monday, a Texas federal court dealt with a nuanced issue relating to vaccine mandates. Continue reading

A federal court says certain religious employers may discriminate against LGBT employees

November 4, 2021 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Do you remember back in 2020, when the Supreme Court in Bostock v. Clayton County held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids employment discrimination based on LGBT status? But the court did leave one issue open, namely, the implications for religious liberties and other matters arising from its decision.

Last week, a Texas federal court filled that gap by concluding that certain religious organizations are permitted to refrain from employing those who engage in conduct that violates their sincerely held religious beliefs. Continue reading

The EEOC emailed me its INTERNAL Religious Accommodation Request Form. Want to see it?

October 29, 2021 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Earlier this week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission provided additional information on religious objections to workplace vaccine requirements to its growing technical assistance manual. Thank you.

But, yesterday, one of the EEOC Commissioners emailed me the actual form that the EEOC uses to process religious accommodation requests.

THANK YOU! Continue reading

How to call applesauce on COVID-19 religious objections and other new advice from the EEOC

October 26, 2021 | by Eric B. Meyer

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I meant to write a blog post on Sunday evening to go up yesterday.

But, here’s the thing. Continue reading

These employees actually convinced a court to block a workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandate. But how???

October 15, 2021 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Ever since a federal judge in Texas upheld a workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandate back in June, the consensus among judges and lawyers was that employers could require workers to get a COVID-19 shot as a condition of employment.

But, recently, the State of New York was accused of taking its vaccine mandate for hospital and nursing home staff to the next level. Continue reading

A judge wasn’t buying a plaintiff’s religious reasons to avoid a vaccine mandate. And, sometimes, neither should you.

September 21, 2021 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Yesterday, my friend Jon Hyman blogged about fetal stem cells and vaccine-mandate religious exemptions.

TL;DR. Any employee that refused the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines because they contain aborted fetal cells is full of 💩. They don’t. Consequently, any religious exemption request that an employee may make on that basis is objectively wrong. Continue reading

How does one major airline plan to accommodate religious vaccine exemptions? With unpaid leave.

September 9, 2021 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Several news outlets reported yesterday that a major airline that has already mandated employee vaccinations will begin placing employees on temporary unpaid leave if approved for a religious vaccine exemption. Continue reading

Don’t fall for this anti-vaxxer workplace hack.

August 12, 2021 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Hey, they can’t all be hip hop HR posts. But, you’ll be thanking me for helping to sleuth out what appears to be a big medical and religious COVID-19 vaccination accommodation scam now percolating on the West Coast and coming soon to a city near you. Continue reading