Employer’s Duty to Accommodate Religion Has Limits

As with disabilities, so also with an employee’s religious beliefs: an employer is required to provide a reasonable accommodation, and this requirement is not unlimited. In Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and David Wise v. Firestone Fibers & Textiles Company, et al., Nos. 06-2203 and 06-2241, Firestone claimed that the plaintiff requested an unreasonable accommodation. A District court granted summary judgment against EEOC and Wise, and the Fourth Circuit affirmed.