The Supreme Court wrestled with the case of a Christian mail carrier who refused to work on Sundays when he was required to deliver Amazon packages.
Mail carrier refused to deliver Amazon packages on Sundays and sued U.S. Postal Service for religious discrimination.
While the court seemed in broad agreement that businesses like the Postal Service can’t cite minor costs or hardships to reject such requests to accommodate religious practices, it was less clear what the justices might do about the particular worker’s case. The case is the latest religious confrontation the high court has been asked to referee. In recent years, the court’s 6-3 conservative majority has been particularly sensitive to the concerns of religious plaintiffs. That includes a ruling last year in which the court said a public high school football coach should be allowed to pray on the field after games.
Even Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer who was representing the post office, told the justices that the Hardison case as a whole requires an employer who wants to deny an accommodation to show more. She said that most often requests for religious accommodation come up when employees seek schedule changes like the Sabbath off or midday prayer breaks or exemptions from a company’s dress code or grooming policies.
But when an Amazon.com contract with the Postal Service required carriers to start delivering packages on Sundays, Groff balked. Initially, to avoid the shifts, Groff transferred to a more rural post office not yet doing Sunday deliveries, but eventually that post office was required to do them, too.
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