S 2572
107th Congress
Senate
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in employment
Hours of labor
Labor and Employment
Leave of absence
Religion
Religion in the workplace
Religious liberty
Transfer of employees
Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 2002
Introduced: May 23, 2002
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 23, 2002
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
May 23, 2002
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4865)
May 23, 2002
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 2002 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide criteria to determine whether an employer has committed an unlawful employment practice by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to the religious observance or practice of an employee. Deems an accommodation to be reasonable if it removes the conflict between employment requirements and the religious observance or practice of the employee.
Declares that an employer shall be considered to commit an unlawful employment practice if the employer refuses to permit the employee to utilize leave of general usage to remove such a conflict solely because the leave will be used to accommodate the employee's religious observance or practice.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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