Groff is likely to boost an already robust anti-vaccine campaign, giving health care workers and other employees a legal weapon against ordinary vaccine requirements.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court subtly transformed the rights of religious workers in America. Under the guise of “clarifying” a nearly 50-year-old precedent, the court held that companies are guilty of discrimination unless they accommodate employees from any policies that burden their religious practices. A company can still defend itself by showing that an accommodation would impose an “undue hardship,” but the court has made it more difficult to meet that standard.
In many states, a company can fire you for refusing to complete diversity training, to treat LGBTQ coworkers and customers with respect, to get vaccinated, and other conduct that some religious conservatives find intolerable.Legal conservatives had begun to argue that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law prohibiting employment discrimination, gives workers powerful rights to be exempt from company policies that conflict with their religious beliefs.
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