Gordon E. Wright v. Marvin Runyon, Postmaster General

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• holding that giving employee an opportunity to bid on internal jobs that would have accommodated his religious practice was reasonable accommodation, even though employee “chose not to take full advantage of the bidding system”
• noting that accommodation offered was reasonable even though it required the plaintiff “to take a job that most people did not want”
• noting that reasonableness of an accommodation may be in question if employee “in order to accommodate his religious practices, had to accept a reduction in pay or some other loss of benefits”
• giving employee opportunity to bid on jobs that would have accommodated his religious practice was reasonable accommodation
• employee who chose not to take full advantage of employer bidding system is responsible for consequences
• employer accommodated employee’s Sabbath observance by inviting the employee to bid on four open positions that had days off that were congruent with his Sabbath

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).