Where’s the Beef Part II: Court Refuses To “Butcher” EEOC’s Religious Discrimination Claim

Our loyal blog readers may recall a post we authored in October 2013 regarding EEOC v. JBS USA, LLC (the “Nebraska Case”), where Chief Judge Laurie Smith Camp of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska entered judgment for the employer, JBS USA, in a hotly contested religious discrimination case, finding that the employer established the affirmative defense of undue hardship since “a religious accommodation for Muslim employees [at its Grand Island, Nebraska processing facility] within the parameters requested [by the EEOC], would have caused more than a de minimis burden on JBS and on its non-Muslim employees.”

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