Jamal Awil

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Courts rarely accommodate religious minorities when profits would suffer [causal]

That her findings from more than a decade ago (and before 9/11) are still relevant is evident in her conclusion where after reviewing a set of cases in which Muslim women sued for religious discrimination, she found that women often fail to win accommodation of their religious and minority needs, especially when employers can reasonably argue that such accommodation would mean a loss of profit on their part.

QUESTION: Are there notable exceptions where courts did compel accommodation despite profit concerns? What standards vary across jurisdictions?

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 520