Can employer force a schedule change?

[amaiunmei]

Originally Posted by uRabbit

My employer has already done it once, but this time they would be encroaching quite a bit.

1) There are two other people in my home that work, and both have different days off than I do, so that we can all be with my pre-k child (she goes to school Thursday & Friday, which my wife has scheduled days off on). I have Saturdays, and Sundays, and our other family member has Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Mondays the child is out of the home at relatives'.

2) My employer wants to switch me to 9-6 instead of 8-5, despite plenty of other people being available (without families) to change, and despite there already being someone on the clock until 6 to do the job that they manager is wanting done. This would encroach on religious activities.

I have not been approached about the schedule change officially, but my team leader has warned me that the manager is thinking about it. Out of the five people available to be there later, only two of us have families and are religious.

I'm pretty sure that the whole religious bit protects me, but I want to ask to make sure about the religious and family aspect of it all. Google hasn't turned anything up.


Thank you!

If you have a long history of working 8-5 and your employer shifts your schedule one hour, you're going to have a really high bar for explaining why that one hour shift constitutes a considerable threat to your religious activity. Most judges would look at that and eyeroll.