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3 Steps to Make Workplace Religious Accommodations for Islamic Prayer

Few issues are more sensitive for employers than accommodating employees’ religious practices and observances. In recent years, Muslim employees and their employers have struggled with how to handle the religious requirement to perform obligatory prayers while at work. Here are some suggestions.

5 Daily Prayers

Muslims are mandated by their faith to observe five daily prayers during certain intervals. The performance of the prayer requires preparation in the form of a ritual cleansing followed by the actual prayer, which consists of a series of standing, bowing, and prostrating actions accompanied by recitation of chapters from the Quran.

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