corporate-law discrimination employer
ability to eat bacon as a job requirement
<p>Let's say, I'm starting my own company and consider to hire some people. May I or may I not put the <em>ability to eat bacon</em> as a job requirement for every employee? If I did so, how many lawsuits would I get?</p>

<p>If some candidates don't meet this requirement for some reason, would that be considered a discrimination or would it just look like these candidates do not fit the company's culture?</p>

<p>This potentially (i.e. almost certainly) runs afoul of laws against religious discrimination. However, you can have such a requirement provided you <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/wysk/workplace_religious_accommodation.cfm" rel="noreferrer">make an accommodation</a> for those with sincerely held religious beliefs or practices against bacon-eating. You can also have such a requirement (despite the beliefs) if not having the requirement imposes an undue hardship on the business. For example, if the job is "bacon taste-tester", then there's no reasonable accommodation. This applies to religious objections, since religion is protected class, but not "I don't like bacon" as an objection; nor does this apply to people who object to meat-eating on economic grounds. </p>
