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Employees at the Clearwater Plumbing Supplies Liked to Listen to Music

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Employees at the Clearwater Plumbing Supplies liked to listen to music while they worked in the warehouse. They asked management to hold an election to determine which radio station would be played on the warehouse public address system (PA) . The winning station was a Christian music show. After a few weeks of having exclusively Christian radio played over the loud speakers at work, some employees complained to management that this was religious discrimination. Management stopped playing music on the PA and allowed employees to wear headsets or have small radios at their workplace. Arturo, a devout Christian, was extremely disappointed by this change. He brings a complaint under Title VII.


A) Arturo can prevail on a claim of failure to accommodate his religious practices because the complaints by a few employees about playing Christian radio on the PA were not made to the EEOC.
B) Arturo cannot show disparate treatment because the right to listen to a certain kind of music, even that which has been approved of by majority employee vote, is not an adverse employment action.
C) Arturo can prevail on a claim of failure to accommodate his religious practices if he can show that his religion requires that he listen to Christian radio at work.
D) Arturo can show disparate impact because the decision to stop playing Christian radio does not affect non-Christians equally as it affects Christians.

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