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An undue hardship is an American legal term referring to special or specified circumstances that partially or fully exempt a person or organization from performance of a legal obligation so as to avoid an unreasonable or disproportionate burden or obstacle. [1] [2] [3]
Hardship is a reason for a change in the contractual program of the parties. The aim of the parties remains to implement the contract. Force majeure , however, is situated in the context of nonperformance and deals with the suspension or termination of the contract.
Undue hardship, in employment law and other areas Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Hardship .
Undue influence is an equitable doctrine that involves one person taking advantage of a position of power over another person. The law presumes that in certain classes of special relationship, such as between parent and child, or solicitor and client, there will be a special risk of one party unduly influencing their conduct and motives for ...
The test, first developed in the late 20th century, is widely used in American constitutional law. [1] In short, the undue burden standard states that a legislature cannot make a particular law that is too burdensome or restrictive of one's fundamental rights. One use of the standard was in Morgan v. Virginia, 328 U.S. 373 (1946).
Central Alberta Dairy Pool v Alberta (Human Rights Commission), [1990] 2 SCR 489, is a leading human rights law decision of the Supreme Court of Canada.The Court expanded on the concept of accommodation up to undue hardship first established in Ontario (Human Rights Commission) v Simpsons-Sears Ltd, [1985] 2 SCR 536 and provided a set of factors to consider when evaluating undue hardship.
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The opinion clarified Title VII's standard of "undue hardship" does not mean de minimis. The ruling states that "undue hardship is very different from de minimis" and that an employer even "showing more than de minimis cost" in providing religious accommodation "does not suffice to establish undue hardship." This ruling places additional onus ...