Supreme Court to Consider Expanding Rights of Religious Workers

The US Supreme Court docket agreed to contemplate requiring employers to do extra to accommodate the wants of non secular staff, accepting an attraction from a Pennsylvania postal service who says he was pressured out of his job for refusing to work on Sundays.

The attraction asks the excessive courtroom to overturn a 1977 ruling that mentioned private and non-private employers can’t be required underneath a federal job-discrimination regulation to bear greater than a minimal value.

The case will come earlier than a courtroom that has expanded faith-based rights in quite a lot of contexts lately.

Spiritual-rights advocates have been in search of for years to have the courtroom rethink the 1977 determination, Trans World Airways Inc. v. Hardison. Three conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — had beforehand mentioned the courtroom ought to contemplate overruling the case, one in need of the quantity required to grant assessment.

The Biden administration urged the Supreme Court docket to reject the attraction, saying the Postal Service acted correctly underneath any authorized customary. The employee, Gerald Groff, missed 24 scheduled Sunday shifts, and the federal government says different carriers have been having to fill in for him. Groff resigned in 2019 after a collection of disciplinary actions.

The case is Groff v. DeJoy, 22-174.

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