BUS 803 Faith@Work: The Law and Threats to Ignoring Faith at Work

In BUS 802, we focused on examples of how companies are addressing faith at work successfully. For those companies, addressing faith in the workplace has brought many benefits, such as higher levels of employee satisfaction and greater employee retention rates. In sum, addressing faith at work has been good for those businesses that have done it successfully. Is there another side to the coin? Do companies that do not address faith at work have negative consequences? In BUS 803, we will explore some of the problems that have occurred for companies that have not effectively addressed faith at work. We will also address the basic laws that apply to religion at work.

Learning Outcomes

As a result of the session, you will be able to:

  1. Summarize the basic laws that address religious freedom at work.
  2. Define the threats to business that come from a lack of religious accommodation.

Contributors

Paul W. Lambert MA

Board Member and Senior Business Fellow, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation
Principal, Paul Lambert Consulting

Dr. Brian J. Grim

President, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation

Melissa E. Grim JD, MTS

Senior Research Fellow and Project Director
Religious Freedom & Business Foundation

Greg Clark J.D.

Vice President, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation
Partner, Hughes, Fields & Stoby

Kent Johnson J.D.

Senior Corporate Advisor
Religious Freedom & Business Foundation

Dr. Nathan C. Walker

President, 1791 Delegates
Founder, ReligionAndPublicLife.org

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College, Graduate, Professional Development

Civic Education for a Common Good

We apply the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business’s 2020 Guiding Principles and Standards for Business Accreditation

We fulfill the AACSB accreditation standards on ethics and integrity, societal impact, mission-driven focus; peer review, continuous improvement, collegiality, agility, global mindset, with special attention to the standard on diversity and inclusion.

We apply the U.S. Department of Education’s Consensus Statements about Constitutional Approaches for Teaching about Religion

▸ Our approach to religion is academic, not devotional;
▸ We strive for student awareness of religions, but do not press for student acceptance of any religion;
▸ We sponsor the study about religion, not the practice of religion;
▸ We expose students to a diversity of religious views, but may not impose any particular view;
▸ We educate about all religions, we do not promote or denigrate any religion;
▸ We inform students about religious beliefs and practices, we do not seek to conform students to any particular belief or practice.

We apply the American Academy of Religion’s “Religious Literacy Guidelines”

▸ “Religious Literacy Guidelines for College Students.” American Academy of Religion, 2019.
▸ “Teaching About Religion: AAR Guidelines for K-12 Public Schools.” American Academy of Religion, April 2010.

We apply the National Council for the Social Studies C3 Frameworks for Religious Studies

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards, “Religious Studies Companion Document for the C3 Framework.” Silver Spring, MD: National Council for the Social Studies, 2017.