Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Universal Manufacturing Corp.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), on behalf of an employee, appeals from the district court’s summary judgment in favor of the employer in an action for religious discrimination. We find that the court erred in ruling that, absent a showing of undue hardship by an employer, accommodating only one of the two practices of the employee’s religion, both of which conflicted with the employee’s work duties, satisfied as a matter of law the duty of “reasonable accommodation” imposed on the employer by Section 701(j) of Title VII; and, therefore, we reverse and remand for a…