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It’s people like you that make me wish the jurisprudence allowed employers to examine the validity of an employee’s religious beliefs.
Why? If certain attorneys are able to be fully unplugged from work for 24 hours Friday sundown-Saturday sundown due to “valid” religious beliefs, they’re still unavailable. No reason other attorneys can’t be offered that same protection on, say, a different day of the week just because they want to follow a non-uniform view of a religious text or really just because they want to. Why do firms only give leeway when they’re legally obligated to do so? It’s otherwise a benefit only being offered to certain “valid” religions.
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I’m Christian and don’t work or check work email from midnight Saturday to midnight Sunday. Been over a decade and no issue. If you have religious beliefs, observe them.
M&A lawyer at my first firm did this. Super nice guy, worked until 11:59 Saturday and was online at 12:01 Monday. Never was a problem.
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Sabbath for Christians is Sunday.
OP, you can be a test case and put an OOO as a Christian. If anyone objects it’ll be fun to see what happens in the litigation.
This is a fair question. As an atheist, I do believe that if firms accommodate strict time off on religious grounds, the same policy should be applied across the board - e.g. if Jews have undisturbed Friday to Saturday evening off, everyone else should enjoy the same undisturbed period off over the weekend. This can be staggered and I’d be happy to take Sunday instead of Saturday so not everyone is off at the same time.
This feels like a microaggression
some christians do observe sabbath! you can if you want and believe, i have worked with colleagues that observe a christian sabbath.
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Cats have colleagues?
I grew up with many seventh day Adventists in my family who observed the sabbath. As a more general answer though, there is a broad range of Old Testament laws that Christians don’t follow (eg kosher) not just the sabbath
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OP am I reading correctly that you think you will have a better having your religion respected if you changed the day are trying to build a religious justification around that?
OP you had to work president's day weekend? I think you should go straight to the EEOC.
You’d probably be better off claiming a stricter adherence to Sunday observance (could communicate that you have Sunday religious obligations and will not generally be available) than trying to get them to buy into a Christian Saturday observance. I agree Sunday is less respected as a general rule, but truthfully that is mostly because most Christians, and especially those of us who are not super religious, have not found it worthwhile to push for it.