Ask the Lawyer: Dispute over preferred pronouns puts employer in the hot seat
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A reader asks: Two of my employees are putting me in the middle of the culture wars and I don’t know what to do.
A Christian music teacher, terminated for declining to use his gender-dysphoric students’ new names or pronouns, has a second chance for justice in his lawsuit against his former employer.
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The Court clarified that the standard an employer must meet for establishing an “undue hardship” is not the “de minimis cost” test used by courts for many years – including by the 7th Circuit in Kluge – but is instead whether a religious accommodation would “result in substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct of its particular business.”