Faith at Work Is About the Practice, Not the Preaching
When we use the words “faith at work,” some people get so hot under the collar and very defensive.
Accommodating an Employee's Religion Just Got Even More Complicated
Do we now have a cluster of factors indicating a potential Jewish identity? Do we now have to ask why a candidate cannot work on Saturday and/or raise accommodations?
Religion and the Workplace
Know what accommodations you're legally required to make when employees need time off work for religious observances.
5 Tips for Addressing Religion During the Hiring Process
Here are five tips for hiring managers about how to address religious beliefs during the hiring process
Seven Important Lessons from World Religions Everyone Should Know
It doesn't matter if you're an atheist, devout follower of your faith, an agnostic, or anywhere in between—there's wisdom to be learned from the world's religions. Here are some of the most important, universally applicable teachings from sacred texts everyone would benefit from learning.
Religion in the Workplace: How to Achieve Inclusive Observance
The challenge most managers are faced with is how to accommodate their employees’ diverse religious needs while being respectful of those who describe themselves as nonreligious.
How A Manager Can Deal With Religion In The Workplace
Of all of the issues that managers have to use their manager skills to deal with in the workplace, it’s possible that religion might be the most difficult.
What Companies Can Do When Work and Religion Conflict
Since 2007, the number of complaints for religious discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has risen significantly.
How to Manage Religious Diversity in the Workplace
Religious diversity in the workplace can bring a company many benefits in the form of different viewpoints. Managing religious diversity in the workplace, however, can be challenging from a human resources standpoint.
The Catholic Connection To Thanksgiving Day
If Christmas is referred to as “The greatest story ever told,” America’s first Thanksgiving could very well be “The greatest story you’ve never heard before.”
Religion and the Workplace
Know what accommodations you're legally required to make when employees need time off work for religious observances.
Can Forbidding an Employee from Wearing a Hijab Be Discrimination?
Many religious traditions expect their followers to adhere to certain standards in clothing or personal grooming for reasons of modesty or religious symbolism.
Why HR needs to take religion seriously
Given how much religion can impact some persons’ lives, HR practice fails to attend to a potentially important influence on workplace behaviour if it ignores its interaction with employee religious commitment.
Corporate America Begins to 'Believe' In Making Faith a Workplace Priority
Most Fortune 100 companies have well-established diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that include employee resource groups but analysis from the RFBF shows that faith typically receives far less attention compared to categories like race/ethnicity, women/gender, sexual orientation, veterans/military, disability, age and family.
Are US businesses doing enough to support religious diversity in the workplace?
Religious discrimination claims in the US have doubled since 2001. Should businesses take more steps to ensure every employee feels valued?
Separation of Church and Cubicle: Religion in the Workplace
Religion in America is once again undergoing a period of intense examination.
The Religious and Cultural Origins of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, and has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well.
Overcoming Religious Biases in the Workplace
Most organizational leaders will supervise employees of faith, and many are people of faith themselves. Religious bias is pervasive and often unintentional. This lesson helps leaders identify strategies to overcome religious bias in the workplace.
What to Do about Faith Bias in the Workplace
More than one-third of American workers identified that they had witnessed or experienced religious bias in the workplace, according to Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, an organization which combats religious bias in the workplace, healthcare, education and conflict zones.
From Religious Diversity to Spiritual Inclusion
Religious diversity over the last 20 years, especially with the introduction of equality legislation, has encouraged us to look at and explore the differences between religion and belief traditions.