Sentences with phrase «religious holidays off»

I personally don't like the idea of having any religious holidays off since I think they shouldn't mix, but if you allow some, you allow others.

They don't get any other religious holiday off either (other than Christmas which, like someone said, is not much of a christian holiday anymore).

I say we take every religious holiday off.

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.

We only get one major Christian holiday off and I don't recall any Jewish, Hindu, Buddist or any other religious holiday as a day off school.

I think that much of the reason colleges have days off during what may have historically ben religious holidays is because many people would simply skip class.

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.

BUT I do believe in separation of «church» and state (another founding principal of our country)... so NO religious holiday should result in a day off from school not even CHRISTMAS or PASSOVER etc. if you celebrate the holiday don't send your kid to school and they can catch up later.

School probably shouldn't close on any religious holiday but instead people who practice those religions should be able to take the day off.

Every religious holiday should be celebrated and days off from school provided.

However, there are a limited number of school days and the children simply can not be off for every religious holiday that comes along.

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.

Do only Muslim kids get off that holiday and if so how is that fare too all the other kids in America with many diffrent religious holidays?

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.

If you want specific religious holiday's off then I suggest you go to a religious run school.

Schools USED TO schedule days (or periods of time) off for religious holidays, i.e. - Christmas and Easter.

There should be NO school days off for observance of any religious holiday, period.

A Postdoctoral Scholar may observe special or religious holidays by using personal time off, as described in Article 17 or by working an alternate day, if the University determines that work schedules permit.

Pretty sure everyone has Easter Friday off in Austria, but then again it's more of a religious country I think so we tend to get those holidays always off and everything closes.

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.

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?

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.

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.