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OLIN CORP. v. FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES COM.

Nos. 48318-19 cons.

67 Ill.2d 466 (1977)

367 N.E.2d 1267

OLIN CORPORATION, Appellee, v. THE FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES COMMISSION et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 20, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield (Paul J. Bargiel and Stephen R. Swofford, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for appellant Fair Employment Practices Commission.

Donald C. Rikli, of Highland, for appellant Burl Leon McEvers.

Dorothy Kelley, of East Alton (Arthur W. Dulemba, Jr., of Stamford, Connecticut, of counsel), for appellee.

Paul Franklin, of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, of Chicago (Arnold Forster, Jeffrey P. Sinensky, and Joy Meyers, of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, of New York, New York; Norbert N. Rosenthal, of the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs, of Chicago; and Dennis Rapps, of the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs, of New York, New York, of counsel), for amici curiae Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs.

Judgment affirmed.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

The question presented here concerns the claimed duty of an employer, under section 3(a) of the Fair Employment Practices Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 48, par. 853(a)), to reasonably accommodate to an employee's religious beliefs which prohibit him from working on Saturdays. The Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission found that Olin Corporation had unlawfully discriminated...

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