Browsing Tag: Employment

Job Opportunity with the Sikh Council on Religion and Education

A human rights case that was to go before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO), involving the right of a Sikh limousine driver to maintain a beard, has settled.

Marking a historic win for civil rights last Saturday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB1964 into law. Proposed, drafted, and sponsored by the Sikh Coalition, the new law provides workers in California the nation's strongest protections against religious discrimination.

The Sikh community is thankful to Governor Brown for upholding the Civil Liberties by signing the bills.

A recently posted essay by I.J. Singh titled A Very Human Tragedy was a case report of a Granthi at a Gurdwara caught in a vortex – a psychologically downward spiral of loneliness, depression, alcohol abuse and hopelessness – so severe that he committed suicide...

In what may be its most significant religious liberty decision in two decades, the Supreme Court on Wednesday for the first time recognized a “ministerial exception” to employment discrimination laws, saying that churches and other religious groups must be free to choose and dismiss their leaders without government interference.

A comparative study by the Economics Department at Punjabi University, Patiala, has revealed that Punjab is lagging behind for providing employment to its educated and skilled people in the last two decades.