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DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 (NO. 81 OF 1991) - SECT 11

Employees—religious practice

11. It is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee on the ground of religious conviction by refusing the employee permission to carry out a religious practice during working hours, being a practice—

(a)     of a kind recognised as necessary or desirable by persons of the same religious conviction as that of the employee;

(b)     the performance of which during working hours is reasonable having regard to the circumstances of the employment; and

(c)     that does not subject the employer to unreasonable detriment.



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