HR can ask an employee to explain a religious conflict. The trouble begins when the review turns into a theological examination. TL;DR: A federal appeals court revived an employee’s religious-accommodation claim after her employer treated her vaccine objections as secular. Personal, medical, and ethical concerns did not erase the religious

Management enforced its drug-testing rule. The exceptions it made afterward created the bigger problem. TL;DR: A federal appeals court revived race-discrimination and retaliation claims because a White employee received a second chance that two Black employees did not, while other evidence included unequal pay, White replacements, and conflicting explanations for