Religious belief

A Age A-Z Appearance B Babies and childcare Behaviour-based questions Benefits C Credit checks Criminal records D Disability Discrimination Domestic employment Dress code Drug testing E Entitlement to work in New Zealand Ethnicity or national origins Equality F Family status Flexibility G Good employer H Health HIV Honesty I Indirect discrimination Interview J Job advertisements K Kids Knowledge L Liability M Marital status Mental illness Migrants N Non-discrimination O Overweight/obesity P Paid parental leave Partner, spouse or relatives Photographs Police vetting Political opinion Pregnancy Privacy Q Qualifications Questions R Race Reasonable accommodation Recruitment consultants Relatives Religious belief Risk of harm S Sex Sexual harassment Sexual orientation Speaking English T Tattoos Transgender/Trans people Treaty of Waitangi U Union membership Unsuccessful applications V Volunteers W Women-only X Xenophobia Y Young people Can an employer ask job applicants if there is anything to prevent them working on Friday, Saturday or Sunday? An employer should avoid asking questions about a job applicant’s religious beliefs or the lack of a religious belief, church activities or participation in religious practices. If an employer has a concern about a job applicant’s availability to work on religious holidays, the schedule of work could be explained and the applicant asked whether this causes any difficulties. For example, if an applicant’s religion does not allow work on Saturdays, and that applicant’s shifts can be adjusted to accommodate this, the employer must do so, as long as this adjustment would not be unreasonably disruptive. Can I ask an employer to provide me with a place for prayer at my workplace? Where a religious belief requires its believers to follow a particular practice, an employer must accommodate the practice so long as any resulting adjustment does not unreasonably disrupt the employer’s activities. Within particular workplaces it may be possible to provide a room or other designated place at the required times. see also » Reasonable accommodation