'It may be rare for religious employees to have conflicts between their jobs and their faith, but it happens with enough frequency that in 1972, Congress passed broad protections for religious employees.' -Jeremy Dys
, judges began to undermine the protections of Title VII for religious employees. Employers may refuse an employee’s religious accommodation request if doing so would present a more than"de minimis" burden. If it were"just a little bit" of a burden for an employer, such as schedule swaps or employee morale, to accommodate one of the most central things to the human experience, religion, then the courts have declared that an employer does not have to accommodate.
Congress clearly intended that same standard to apply to religious employees in Title VII. If it had applied, Gerald Groff, whom we represent, would still have a job. The postmaster admitted under oath that accommodating Groff was not an undue hardship but still refused to do so. Was it an undue hardship for the Postal Service to accommodate Groff? No. Many wanted the overtime pay for Sunday work. Surely an employer the size of the Postal Service could, and at one time did, find a way to accommodate a single employee’s religious exercise.
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