Legal Opinion
New York City Transit Authority v. State
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 22, 1996PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Titone, J.
Our State’s Human Rights Law prohibits employers from discriminating against their employees because of their religiously motivated Sabbath observance (Executive Law § 296 [10] [a]). Recognizing that there may be circumstances in which the mandate of the statute conflicts with the strictures of a collective bargaining agreement, we have previously held that an employer caught in such a conflict is obligated only to make a "good faith” effort to accommodate a Sabbath-observing employee (Matter of Schweizer Aircraft Corp. v State Div. of Human Rights, 48 NY2d 294,…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. HardisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Parochial Bus Systems, Inc. v. Board of EducationNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
- Oden v. Chemung County Industrial Development AgencyNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
- State Division of Human Rights v. Carnation Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1977
- Schweizer Aircraft Corp. v. State Division of Human RightsNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
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