The Supreme Court of Canada found that the employer should have accommodated the employee's religious practices.

Would require employers to accommodate workers' observances of religious holidays, when practical.

In the case of DSPD, this may require that the employer accommodate later working hours for jobs normally performed on a "9 to 5" work schedule.

Federal law requires that employers reasonably accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of their employees, unless they can demonstrate such accomodations will cause them undue hardship.

Her employer accommodated her training schedule.

The ruling means that the employer must accommodate those needs, he said.

It forbids discrimination in hiring and requires employers to accommodate the disabled in the workplace.

Where an employer cannot accommodate any changes the Statement is taken as the employee being not fit for work.

The law, he said, requires that an employer reasonably accommodate the handicapped, so long as the employer does not suffer undue hardship.

Under federal law, employers in businesses of more than 15 workers must "reasonably accommodate" religious needs unless they can demonstrate "undue hardship."