Under federal, New York State and New York City law, employers cannot ignore the religious needs of employees.
New York, NY (PRWEB) June 19, 2012
An Orthodox Jew claimed he was being kicked out of the New York City police academy for refusing to trim his beard, according to a civil rights lawsuit (12-CIV-4681) filed in Manhattan Federal Court.
Former recruit Fishel Litzman was fired less than a month before he completed training because he refused to trim his beard “as a matter of religious conscience,” said the religious discrimination lawsuit.
Beards kept for religious purposes are allowed by the NYPD if trimmed to a length of one millimeter or less. However, this proposed accommodation by the NYPD was deemed “inadequate” by Litzman, said the religious discrimination lawsuit.
“Under federal, New York State and New York City law, employers cannot ignore the religious needs of employees,” said New York civil rights violation lawyer David Perecman, founder of The Perecman Firm, one of New York’s civil rights violation law firms.
New York civil rights violation lawyers at The Perecman Firm understand the religious discrimination in employment lawsuit claims the NYPD violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. Constitution and the Constitution of the State of New York, as well as New York City's Workplace Religious Freedom Act.
In the civil rights lawsuit against the New York Police Department, Litzman asks to be restored to the position he occupied when he received his termination notice, and compel the NYPD to meet his requests for religious accommodation.
“In New York, an employer must reasonably accommodate an employee's sincerely held religious observance or practice, unless the employer can demonstrate undue hardship, meaning significant expense or difficulty,” said Perecman, a civil rights violation lawyer. “The New York Police Department would be hard pressed to establish that an untrimmed beard would create undue hardship.”
Individuals who believe they have been victims of a New York civil rights violation including religious discrimination in employment or racial profiling can contact New York civil rights violation lawyers at The Perecman Firm at http://www.perecman.com.
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