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Religious Harassment

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Employee Handbooks

Religious Accommodation Handbook Statement: California

Updated policy to reflect the expansion of FEHA to prohibit retaliation or discrimination against a person for requesting a disability or religious accommodation, effective January 1, 2016.
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Supervisor Training

Religious Issues in the Workplace - Supervisor Briefing

This briefing for supervisors examines the law and best practices for supervisors when it comes to managing religious issues in the workplace such as avoiding religious discrimination, harassment and retaliation, reasonable accommodation of religious beliefs and practices and types of religious accommodations.
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Policies and Documents

Religious Accommodation Policy

An employer may use this policy to inform employees on how to request a religious accommodation. Examples of accommodations may include job restructuring, job reassignment, modification of work practices, and allowing time off, or a combination of the above.
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Tasks

Accommodate an Employee's Request to Pray During Working Hours
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Best Practice Manual

Religion

This section of the XpertHR best practice manual considers the key issues associated with religion in the workplace and identifies the steps that employers can take to address these issues fairly, while supporting the needs of the business.
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FAQs

May an employer deny an employee's request to wear a religious head covering if it interferes with employee safety?
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How To

How to Prevent Religious Discrimination

This How To details the steps a prudent employer should take to prevent religious discrimination.
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How To

How to Handle a Complaint of Religious Discrimination

This How To details the steps a prudent employer should take to handle a complaint of religious discrimination.

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HR guidance on handling the issue of religious harassment and preventing its occurrence in the workplace.

Religious Harassment: Key Items

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