Supreme Court· 6/16/1977
Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison
Citations
- 432 U.S. 63
- 97 S. Ct. 2264
- 53 L. Ed. 2d 113
- 1977 U.S. LEXIS 115
- 14 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 7620
- 14 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1697
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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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