By Dawn Solowey ( June 6, 2017, 11:24 AM EDT) -- Religious accommodation is a hot topic for employers in 2017. In the past few months, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued multiple press releases highlighting EEOC-initiated lawsuits alleging unlawful refusal to accommodate employees' religious practices, including observance of a religious holiday and the Sabbath, as well as a significant settlement in a case in which the EEOC claimed a company had unlawfully failed to accommodate an employee's religious beliefs with respect to pre-employment drug testing. And EEOC statistics show that the trend of a high volume of religious discrimination charges (which includes failure-to-accommodate claims) continued in fiscal year 2016....
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