re: #202 reine.de.tout

IMO - from 30 years experience in the field of Human Resources - what this comes down to has nothing to do with the “religious” aspect of it. It has everything to do with the belligerent and threatening behavior, which leads to all sorts of morale & productivity problems within the workplace if not dealt with.

Let me clarify a bit -
the above is what the employer needs to be concerned about, and dealing with.

The employees may try to turn it into a “religious accommodation” issue, but it’s nothing of the sort. The employees used this particular method to act in a threatening and frightening way toward another employee. But the issue the employer needs to be dealing with is the negative effect of the behavior, not whether it was religious or not.