Essays on Religious Discrimination

Introduction

Discrimination in the workplace environment acts as one of the challenges affecting performance. A review of recent statistics on matters associated with discrimination in the workplace setting indicates that the number of cases associated with discrimination on a wide range of areas is increasing significantly. The most common forms of discrimination include religious, ethnic, gender, and age, which bring about an environment where the work environment lacks diversity. The United States government has been on the forefront in dealing with these forms of discrimination through the implementation of legislation focused on ensuring that employers maintain diversity. However, enforcement of ...

Abstract

Religion is an aspect that concerns the private lives of individuals. In the working environment, the religious practice and the integration of faith in the working relations raises ethical concerns. Ethical concerns about the assertion of faith in organizations appear also in the hospitality industry. Companies like Chick-fil-A, In N Out or Taco Bell, have been facing claims of religious practices at work that discriminates employees by pressuring them to approach the employer’s religious assertion. While the assertion of faith in the workplace poses not solely ethical, but also legal and performance – related concerns, this paper focuses on ...

For over 2000 years Christianity shapes people’s spirituality across the world. What started in Judea and gained important momentum in Ancient Rome, spread rapidly across the Middle Eve European societies, who further promulgated Christianity to the rest of the world. Through colonization, missionary work or violent imposition, Christianity is the world’s most spread religion since the age of the discoveries, in the late middle ages (Spielvogel 504). Nicholas Kristof’s (2015) article from New York Times, “For Many, Faith Comes at a High Price” discusses Christianity in the context of the current socio – political events, marked by ...

Employers are not permitted to discriminate based on religion, particularly with companies that have nothing directly to do with religion. For companies that employ people whose job is directly shaped by religion and therefore those who religion to them is a “bona fid occupational qualification” (BFOQ), religious discrimination is permitted, but the BFOQ needs to be part of the business’s necessary operation (Eisgruber & Sager, 1994).For non-religious co-optations, that can be difficult to prove. For religious organizations, when a religious group runs the organization or has direct engagement, preferences for particular religion are permitted. Religious accommodation is required ...

Religious discrimination is treating a person differently because of what they do and believe in. This kind of discrimination infringes the constitutional right of freedom of religion (Katz, 1952).

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Vs Abercrombie and Fitch Stores Inc

In this case, a young Muslim woman claimed that Abercrombie and Fitch denied her a job because she wore a black headscarf to the interview.

Facts

Samantha Elauf, who is the Muslim woman, went to Abercrombie and Fitch Company for a job interview. During the job interview, the interviewer failed to inquire about her headscarf, but assumed she was Muslim. Therefore, Samantha did not ask the company whether they might offer ...

Workplace discrimination has been around for decades in most parts of the world. Discrimination refers to the disparate treatment of workers based on social and physiological indicators such as age, gender, race/ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. The pervasiveness of discrimination manifests in the adverse psychological, social, occupational, and sometimes physical effects that the vice has on the victims. Over the last four decades, several countries have enacted antidiscrimination laws due to the mounting awareness and public outcry regarding workplace discrimination. These laws, coupled with avenues for redress in the courts, have been effective in significantly reducing cases of overt ...