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3899 REVIEW DENIED A plaintiff made out a case of employment discrimination on the basis of religion by showing he held a sincere religious belief that he was required by his faith to attend a religious convention, that the employer knew of the belief, and that the employer suspended him for failing to report for work on the day of the convention; this shifted to the employer the burden of showing a reasonable attempt to accommodate the employee's belief or that doing so would have resulted in hardship; the employer's failure to meet that burden justified imposing liability; terminating the employee for threatening to report his suspension resulting from religious observance was an actionable retaliatory discharge.CitationFEHC v GEMINI (Jehovah's Witness Convention) 122 CA4 1004 [See: GovC 12940 etseq; Soldinger v Northwest 51 CA4 345, T/AT 1/97; Tiano v Dillard 139 F3 679]
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