Other retail businesses in the shopping mall in which your shoes shop is located have decided to open on Sundays from noon to 6 pm. You decide to open Sundays as well. Two of your employees refuse to work on Sundays since it is against their religion to work on the Sabbath. You terminate their employment. They file for unemployment compensation and claim their unemployed status is your fault. If the state grants them benefits, you will be penalized since your unemployment tax rate will go up.
Should you contest their claim?
What else could you have done?
How would the situation be different if they refuse to work on Sundays because they have played golf every Sunday since they were 12 years old?