The New Lounge

[DuckDevil]

While it’s against federal law to hire or fire someone based on their religion, proving religious discrimination is very difficult, especially in at will employment states where employers can fire someone for any reason other than the protected classes.

I personally don’t care what someone’s religion is as long as they contribute to society and follow the nation’s laws. I think it’s dangerous to pass laws that favor a particular religion because we don’t know which faiths will hold influence or find themselves in the minority in the future. I would rather have a country founded on shared laws and ideals, not religion.

History gives us little reason to assume the status quo of today will last forever. Standing up for someone else’s faith and their right to practice it today helps safeguard your own faith and right to practice it in the future.

 

[KDSTONE]

While the cases above are relatively cut and dried, Adhering to Title 7 is often fraught with practical challenges. Allowing for two or three prayer breaks a day may be considered an undue hardship for the employer in some work environments. Reasonable accommodation would generally be much simpler in an office environment as opposed to an assembly line setting. Where the reasonable accommodation ends and undue hardship begins is often quite murky, but the topic was originally about hiring and firing, so I’ve probably gone a little deep in the weeds here.

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[DuckDevil]

That’s not great.

Also, the Treasury (Trump) announced yesterday that it will double the amount of money it’s currently pumping into the bond market. Coincidentally, this is scheduled to continue into November, artificially pushing interest rates down in the run-up to the election, which would have been a huge scandal for any other president.

This could have dire consequences when it ends. You can’t mess with the bond market like this without consequences.