A unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court replaces a nearly 50-year old precedent that made it relatively easy for employers to deny religious accommodations.
Businesses will have to do more to accommodate religious workers after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a former Post Office employee who refused to work Sunday shifts due to his Christian beliefs.
The case, called Groff v. DeJoy, involved a USPS worker in Pennsylvania who did not want to work on the Sabbath after the post office agreed to deliver Amazon AMZN, -1.02% packages on Sundays. Gerald Groff quit his job after the post office penalized him for missing 24 Sunday shifts. The court’s opinion set a narrow scope for assessing the impacts of accommodations. The USPS argued that adjusting schedules to accommodate Gerald Groff negatively affected his coworkers who had to take over his shifts.
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