Supreme Court wrestles with accommodating religious faith on the job
c. 2015 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS) Samantha Elauf was a teenager who loved clothes and applied to work in an Abercrombie & Fitch Kids store in her native Tulsa, Okla., in 2008. But Elauf, a Muslim, also wears a headscarf. So she didn’t get the job.
No one—not even Abercrombie & Fitch—disputes that her hijab cost her the job offer. And the law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, states that an employer can’t deny employment based on an worker’s religious practice, unless accommodating it would prove terribly burdensome.
