Equal Employment Opportunity & HRM

Before you begin this assignment, be sure to familiarize yourself with the following information including laws and their amendments.

Gepp, R. (2017). Religious accommodation in the workplace: Guidance for Avoiding Legal Trouble. HR Daily Advisor. https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/2017/05/23/religious-accommodation-workplace-guidance-avoiding-legal-trouble/

Katz, H. C., Kochan, T. A., & Colvin, A. J. S. (2017). Employment law. An introduction to U. S. collective bargaining and labor relations. Cornell University Press, pp. 71-79. Available from Skillsoft Books in the Trident Online Library.

Religious accommodation in the workplace. (2012). Your rights and obligations. Anti-Defamation League. https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/civil-rights/religiousfreedom/religfreeres/ReligAccommodWPlace-docx.pdf

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (n.d.) Enforcement guidance on reasonable accommodation and undue hardship under the Americans with Disabilities Act. https://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/accommodation.html

There are primarily two U.S. governmental agencies responsible for enforcing EEO laws. The two agencies are the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).

Assignment:

Address the following questions in preparing a paper of 2 to 3 pgs (not including cover pg or reference pg.)

1. Summarize the reasonable accommodation expectations concerning religion and disability that employers must meet under the law.
2. From your readings/research (stating employers by name), describe one specific private sector workplace example of a reasonable accommodation for religion, and one specific private sector workplace example of a reasonable accommodation for disabilities.

SLP AssignmentExpectations

Make reasonable, cost-effective assumptions in your paper, if needed. State your assumptions in the beginning of your discussion.

Paper length: 2 to 3 pgs (not counting the cover and reference pgs).

For this SLP assignment utilize at least 2 high-quality academic sources from the Trident Online Library to help strengthen and validate your discussion.

Cite all sources utilized to make your paper.

Run your paper through the MS Editor tool as it checks for multiple potential errors, such as spelling, grammar, sentence structure, verb tense, punctuation, duplication of words, and incomplete sentences.

See the Trident guide to APA, 7th edition.