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Governor Brown Signs AB 987, Making it Illegal to Retaliate Against an Employee Who Requests a Reasonable Acccomodation

On July 16, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 987 into law.  This new law makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to retaliate or otherwise discriminate against an employee for requesting an accommodation for a disability or religious belief, regardless of whether or not the request…

U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Standard for Proving Religious Discrimination

On June 1, 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch that, for an employee to successfully prove a religious discrimination case, that employee need only prove that his/her need for an accommodation was a “motivating factor” in the employe’s adverse employment decision.  There…