Olin Corp. v. Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission

delivered tire opinion of the court:

This appeal is taken from a judgment entered by the circuit court of Madison County reversing an order of the defendant Fair Employment Practices Commission (Commission) finding that plaintiff Olin Corporation (Olin) had unlawfully discriminated against its employee defendant, Burl Leon McEvers, because of his religion. The circuit court ruled in relevant part:

“Nowhere in the reading of the statutes does this Court find a statutory imposition of a burden on an employer to make ‘a good faith effort * * * to reasonably accommodate an employee’s genuine and…