S 893
108th Congress
Senate
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clothing
Discrimination in employment
Employee rights
Employee training
Employers' liability
Hours of labor
Labor and Employment
Law
Leave of absence
Recruiting of employees
Religion
Religion in the workplace
Religious liberty
Transfer of employees
Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 2003
Introduced: April 11, 2003
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 11, 2003
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Apr 11, 2003
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 2003 - Amends the the Civil Rights Act of 1964 regarding religious observance in the workplace to declare that for an employer's accommodation of an employee's religious observance or practice to be considered reasonable, it must remove the conflict between employment requirements and the employee's religious observance or practice.
Deems as an unlawful employment practice an employer's refusal to permit an employee to use leave of general usage to remove the conflict solely because the leave will be used to accommodate the religious observance or practice of the employee.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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