Test Bank for Employment Law for Business 7th Edition by Bennett Alexander

Chapter 11

Religious Discrimination

True / False Questions

1. (p. 485)Atheism cannot be considered the equivalent of a “religion” for purposes of Title VII.
   FALSE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

2. (p. 490)An employer can implement a policy or practice that discriminates against an employee’s religion if the employer cannot accommodate the employee’s religion without suffering undue hardship.
   TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

3. (p. 483)A religious organization may discriminate in hiring based on gender without violating Title VII.
   TRUE

Difficulty: 2 Medium

4. (p. 485)Under Title VII, the worshiping of a deity is required in order for a belief to be considered a religion.
   FALSE

Difficulty: 3 Hard

5. (p. 487)Trina must inform her employer of her religious practices before an employer has a duty to accommodate them.
   TRUE

Difficulty: 2 Medium

6. (p. 489)The United States Armed forces can discriminate against all religions and religious practices to the extent that those practices are inconsistent with the required military dress code.
   TRUE

Difficulty: 2 Medium

7. (p. 490)An employer has a duty to accommodate religious dress, but not national origin dress.
   TRUE

Difficulty: 2 Medium

8. (p. 510)In Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, the U.S. Supreme Court established the guidelines for determining what constitutes undue hardship in the process of attempting reasonable accommodations:
   TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

9. (p. 493)The size of the employer’s workforce is one of the factors considered when determining whether an employer has made a good faith effort to provide a religious accommodation to an employee.
   TRUE

Difficulty: 2 Medium

10. (p. 491)If there is more than one reasonable accommodation available to accommodate an employee’s religious practices, an employer must select the accommodation that is the most reasonable.
    FALSE

Difficulty: 2 Medium

11. (p. 491, 493)Candice refuses to work on Sundays because it is against her religion to work on the Lord’s Day. She has asked her employer to allow her to work every Saturday instead and require another employee to work on Sunday. In order to grant her request, her employer must violate the company’s seniority system and the collective bargaining agreement. Her employer refused and will be liable for religious discrimination.
    FALSE

Difficulty: 3 Hard