However, there are a limited number of school days and the children simply can not be
off for every religious holiday that comes along.
Schools USED TO schedule days (or periods of time)
off for religious holidays, i.e. - Christmas and Easter.
According to the Ontario's Human Rights Commission website, «employers have a duty to accommodate an employee's creed to the point of undue hardship, including by providing time
off for religious holidays.»
So, what rights do employees have when it comes to taking time
off for religious holidays?
Occasionally, a person's religious beliefs will require that they have certain work accommodations such as time for prayer, time off for religious services or time
off for religious holidays.
Similarly, it is illegal for an interviewer to ask if you will need time
off for religious holidays.
Not exact matches
Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time
off to celebrate our
religious holidays as they are largely taken
for granted.
Add to that the fact that Christmas has become less of a
religious day, and more of a commercial (secular) day, and we definitely don't take
off from work or school
for any Christian
religious holidays anymore.
Give students Thanksgiving
off (US
holiday — non
religious), Christmas, New Years, Martin Luther King day, the two Muslim days and find a Jewish day or two that works best
for that religion as well.
So Muslims want days
off from school
for their
religious holidays???, when the moderate Muslims start to profess their outrage at the radical Muslims then we'll think about it.
I would say that we shouldn't include taking days
off from school
for these
religious holidays.
But we now have gone to «winter break» and «spring break», because people felt that giving children time
off from school
for religious holidays was pretty darn close to violating the sacred seperation of church and state.
There should be NO school days
off for observance of any
religious holiday, period.
An employer may have multiple requests
off for the same
religious holiday, as an employer, they will need to accommodate such requests in a consistent and nondiscriminatory fashion.
Typically, the request
for accommodation of
religious beliefs will be
for time
off; either days
off to observe
holidays or time
off during the day to pray, or
for specific scheduling requests, such as not being required to work on the employee's weekly Sabbath or day of rest...
Note that the employer's ability to require employees to work on a public
holiday is subject to the employee's right to take a day
off for purposes of
religious observance under the Ontario Human Rights Code, and to the terms of the employee's employment contract.