YOUR STATEMENT: "A few employees have expressed that they would like to take Friday off instead of working half day. We are willing to accommodate this request but the whole day would be unpaid not just half the day. However if you have vacations days available you may request to take the full day off and get paid as it will be deducted from your vacation days. Please understand we can't make any further individual accommodation as it is against California discrimination labor laws to accommodate one individual and not do the same for everyone else."

ANSWER:

It is NOT against CA law to accommodate one individual and not another as long as there is no discriminatory intent or impact based on a protected status. In addition, if an employee with a disability requests a reasonable accommodation, state and federal law require that the employer provide the accommodation unless it would be an undue hardship. So the statement about the accommodation being against state law is not accurate. Instead, I would simply state that additional individual accommodations will not be made unless required by law. That would be factually and legally accurate.

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