paraphrase An employer's obligation to provide a reasonable accommodation is not absolute. Instead, the employer is required to provide an accommodation only to the extent it will not impose an undue burden, which is a cost or hardship that is "more than a de minimis cost."35 De minimis is the Latin term for minimal importance, and it refers to an insignificant or minimal burden, which an employer would likely be required to withstand in an effort to reasonably accommodate an individual's religious belief or practice. For example, an employer might have an obligation to allow an employee to leave work at sundown on Friday to attend a religious service if the employee would not be paid for the missed time and if a number of other employees would be available to cover the shift. Even though this change might require the employer to undertake a minimal administrative burden to process the shift change request, or it might result in a financial cost if the covering employee earned a higher hourly rate than the employee who was relieved from work, it is doubtful that either of these costs would rise above the de minimis standard, which would be necessary to give