SCOTUS will hear arguments in a major case on a former postal worker's claims that he was denied religious accommodations when he was told to work on Sundays.
Gerald Groff, a former postal worker whose case will be argued before the Supreme Court, sits in a pew after a television interview with the Associated Press at a chapel at the Hilton DoubleTree Resort in Lancaster, Pa., Wednesday, March 8, 2023."I told my postmaster ... 'Every disciplinary hearing that I've had ... I feel like you're asking me to choose between God and what I believe or to obey you.' And I said, 'I mean no disrespect, but I have to choose my faith.
created a barrier for employees to bring discrimination cases and made it so employers don't have to show much to prove an undue hardship. should be clarified to make clear that it gives sizable protections for religious accommodations. But it also says when accommodating the religious practice of one employee negatively affects other employees, that can be an undue hardship on a business.
Groff has found other work since leaving his mail-carrying job at the U.S. Postal Service. Now, he carries mail for a retirement community with several thousand residents.
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