Religious Accommodation Lawsuit Settled

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settled a lawsuit alleging that a Center One employee, an adherent of Messianic Judaism, requested a reasonable accommodation of his religious beliefs requiring abstaining from work on religious observance days. The EEOC charged that Center One refused to grant the employee a schedule modification to observe the religious holiday. The company instead imposed disciplinary points against the employee for his religious-based absences. Such alleged conduct violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for employees’ religious beliefs, practices, and observances absent undue hardship on the employers’ business. Both Center One, LLC, and Capital Management Services, LP, will pay $60,000 to settle the religious accommodation lawsuit. See EEOC v. Center One, LLC., Civil Action No. 2:19-cv-1242. (W.D. Pa.).