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mployers, take note: vague safety concerns and “we did our best” no longer cut it. A recent Third Circuit opinion revived a religious accommodation claim from a firefighter who wanted to keep his beard for faith-based reasons. Applying the Supreme Court’s Groff v. DeJoy standard, the court made it clear: you can’t just trim around the edge
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le VII. TL;DR: The Third Circuit brought a Title VII religious accommodation claim back to life after ruling that the employer failed to show it would suffer undue hardship by allowing a firefighter to keep his religious beard. The decision applies the