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mistyrose2003
04-12-2006, 08:24 PM
I am a full time employee for Amazon.com, and they are having us work on Easter Sunday. I really would like to take this holiday off for both religious and personal reasons. Can I take this day off without getting any points. (We get points for taking days off, and at 6 points we are fired.) I do not expect to get paid for the time lost, but are their any laws on my side to get the day off? :

cbg
04-13-2006, 06:25 AM
Possibly. But leave the personal reasons out of it; they have NO legal obligation to give you any day off for personal reasons. You MAY be able to use religious reasons but personal ones won't cut the mustard.l

The law says that an employer must accomodate religious beliefs WHEN POSSIBLE. That is NOT a guarantee. IF there is a way that they can reasonably accomodate your desire to have a religious holiday off, they must do so. But they do not need to create a hardship for themselves and they do not need to disaccomodate other employees.

In addition, you've left it pretty late; it's already Holy Thursday and you're only just now getting around to asking the question? It may already be too late for them to come up with an accomodation for you.

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