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Companies have an obligation to make reasonable accommodations of employee's religions. Not expecting them to be available during major religious holidays is w
by harimau777 8y ago
Companies have an obligation to make reasonable accommodations of employee's religions. Not expecting them to be available during major religious holidays is well within the bounds of reasonable accommodations. In addition, unless there is more to the story, it doesn't seem believable that someone acting in good faith wouldn't be able to work something out; I mean Christianity only has two major holidays.
This is excluding extreme cases like if someone claimed that their religion has dozens of major holidays a year. To my knowledge, no major religion does that.
- felipemnoa 8y ago>>This is excluding extreme cases like if someone claimed that their religion has dozens of major holidays a year. To my knowledge, no major religion does that.<< Let me speak to you about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster... https://pastafarians.org.au/pastafarianism/holidays/ https://pastafarians.org.au/pastafarianism/holidays/
- godelski 8y agoglob glob (happy Talk Like a Goldfish Day)
- JBReefer 8y agoJudaism does that, but most of my Jewish coworkers have just taken PTO for the minor ones. Purim is fun but no one expects off for it!
- threatofrain 8y agoI hate to sound like whining, but I feel jealous and cheated that people with professed religions get special benefits. It's not as though people who don't profess their religions, or those without specific religious affiliation don't have inner needs of their own which they also need time to tend to. I feel like there should be an "average" compromise and everyone should get the benefit. That way there is no awkward incentive in any direction.
- tsm 8y agoThus national holidays ("holy days").
- harimau777 8y agoI completely agree, Atheists should get the same treatment as religious people for dates and practices that are important to them. Obviously I don't want to tell other people how to practice their beliefs, but I never understood why, for example, Atheists don't put up memorials to important humanists (or something else meaningful to them) next to the Nativity scenes and Menorahs that people put up in public during the Holidays.
- iceninenines 8y agoAdopt a form of magical thinking, and you too can get extra days off. ;) But seriously, if you're on a flight that still has meal service, ordering ahead-of-time the kosher or veg/an option usually means you'll get yours first. :D
- maxxxxx 8y agoI feel the same. Everybody should get the same benefits independently of religion.
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- microtherion 8y agoParadoxically, the US, where many people take religion very seriously, has quite few religiously based public holidays. Switzerland, on the other hand, is much more secular, but some cantons literally have a dozen Christian public holidays, e.g.: Epiphany (Jan 6), St Joseph's Day (Mar 19), Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, Assumption of Mary, All Saint's Day, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Christmas Day, and Saint Stephen's Day.
- mnm1 8y agoQuite few as in zero that employers are required to give their employees. Any country with even one required public holiday has way more than the US.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoI support having mandatory yearly vacation day minimums (such as 20, 30, 40 days), but I don’t see the point of requiring specific dates off. Some people prefer certain dates, others don’t, and supply and demand can easily sort out the extra pay required to have people work on days that more people would want off.
- mnm1 8y agoOh, I agree completely especially given a binary choice. Too bad in America we have neither.
- maxxxxx 8y agoThey also don’t respect Sunday. In the US it’s normal that all stores are open on Sundays and holidays.
- tokyodude 8y agoWhy do I need to respect Sunday? No cities in Asia shutdown on Sunday AFAICT or at least not the ones I've been to. I found it truly annoying when I visited some European cities and nothing was open on Sunday. It felt like they were all under the thumb of religion instead of free to do what they wanted. Here in Japan Sunday is arguably "Shopping Day". Several areas of the city close one of the major streets from like 12pm to 5pm to pedestrians only for shopping including Shinjuku, Ginza, and Akihabara.
- spunker540 8y agoI think if the company is open for business on a day that you want off for a religious holiday, then that's why companies give PTO, so that people can have flexibility in how and when they don't show up to work when everyone else does.