PA. STATE UNIV. ETC. v. HUMAN REL. COMM.

No. 3490 C.D. 1984.

95 Pa.Commw. 388 (1986)

505 A.2d 1053

The Pennsylvania State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 4, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Mark Faulkner, McQuaide, Blasko, Schwartz, Fleming & Faulkner, Inc., for petitioner.

G. Thompson Bell, Assistant General Counsel, with him, Elisabeth S. Shuster, General Counsel, for respondent.

Jeffrey Ivan Pasek, Of Counsel: Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman & Cohen, for Amicus Curiae, The Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce.

Argued November 13, 1985, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR. and Judges ROGERS, CRAIG, MACPHAIL, DOYLE, COLINS and PALLADINO.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, March 4, 1986:

Where one of the supervisors of a force of patrol officers, who maintain security around the clock seven days a week at a 35-building medical center, is a sergeant who refuses to work on any Saturday because of religious belief, is it a reasonable accommodation, without imposing undue hardship upon the medical center's interests, to require that employer grant the sergeant leave as to his 26 scheduled Saturdays of work each year...

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