Federal and state laws prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of religion. These laws also require employers to make reasonable accommodations for employees' religious observances, beliefs, and practices, unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the employer. An employer's failure to reasonably accommodate an employee's religious beliefs or practices can lead to lawsuits and large verdicts and settlements against the employer. In the past decade, the number of religious discrimination claims received by the EEOC has increased by over 60%.

Most employers have adequate policies on reasonable accommodations. However, such policies are not effective unless all supervisors and managers have been trained how to properly apply those policies to the situations that they may encounter in real life. Global Compliance's online course, Reasonable Accommodation of Religious Practices, teaches supervisors and managers the practical skills they need to confidently and effectively handle reasonable accommodation issues.

• Supervisors
• Managers
• Human resource professionals

Through a series of scenarios and interactive exercises, employees will learn practical skills for working with employees of diverse religious backgrounds who request accommodations for their religious practices.

This course provides information on:

• Common types of religious accommodations requested by employees
• The factors to take into consideration when determining whether a requested accommodation would cause undue hardship
  
  

Learners explore how to respond when:

• A requested accommodation seems contrary to the employer's policy
• Several employees present competing interests
• Customers or clients disregard an employee's right to accommodation of religious practices
• More than one possible accommodation is available
  

The course can easily be customized to include an audio-visual message from an official in your organization and instruction on your organization's specific policies relating to reasonable accommodation of religious practices.

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To view a demo or learn more about this course, call Global Compliance at (800) 331-7965 or contact us.