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Many of your employees and applicants will celebrate religious holidays between now and the end of the year. Today, for example, is the first day of Rosh Hashanah, which began last night at sundown.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it unlawful for an employer to deny a reasonable accommodation to an individual who wants to practice their religion by, for example, observing a religious holiday or taking time to pray, unless doing so will create an undue hardship.
Last year, the Supreme Court clarified that an undue hardship means substantial increased costs for an