Estate of Arlene Townsend v. Steven Berman

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• holding that employer reasonably accommodated Seventh Day Adventist employee by, inter alia, agreeing to permit any shift exchanges that employee could arrange on his own
• holding that to leave the employer short-handed would involve costs to the employer “in the form of lost efficiency”
• holding that requirement of reasonable accommodation of religious beliefs was defensible construction of Title VII before Congress amended statute to explicitly so require
• holding that to leave the em ployer short-handed would involve costs to the employer “in the form of lost efficiency”
• holding that an agreed-upon seniority system did not “give way” to an employer’s duty to “reasonably accommodate” religious observance under Title VII
• holding that an agreed-upon seniority system did not \give way\ to an employer's duty to \reasonably accommodate\ religious observance under Title VII

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