Thu Jun 29, 2023 – 1:07 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) –– The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday in favor of a Christian ex-postal worker alleging religious discrimination for being disciplined for refusing to work Sundays, vacating a lower court opinion against the worker and ordering the case to be reconsidered in light of its explanation of the relevant law.
Groff v. DeJoy concerns Gerald Groff, a former U.S. Postal Service carrier and evangelical Christian who was disciplined for refusing to work on Sundays as part of USPS’s expansion to making Amazon deliveries, then sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for refusing to grant him a religious accommodation, which he argued could have been done without undue hardship.
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with USPS, determining that Groff’s refusal to work on Sundays “imposed on his coworkers, disrupted the workplace and workflow, and diminished employee morale.”
In Thursday’s 9-0 ruling, however, the nation’s highest court determined that Title VII “requires an employer that denies a religious accommodation to show that the burden of granting an accommodation would result in substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct
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