Attorneys React To High Court's EEOC v. Abercrombie Ruling - McDermott Will & Emery

Attorneys React To High Court’s EEOC v. Abercrombie Ruling

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Amandeep Sidhu said that a Supreme Court decision rejecting a company’s “look policy” as a pretext for avoiding a religious accommodation for Muslim headscarf wearers has far-reaching implications not only for Muslims, but for Sikhs and other religious minorities with visible articles of faith (like headscarves and turbans) that conflict with “look policies.” Mr. Sidhu concluded that the decision ends a decades-long use of such policies as a” pretext for discrimination”