The USPS made a Christian employee work on Sundays. Now he's at the Supreme Court: 'I have to choose God. My conviction is that strong... It's what I believe. To give that up to deliver Amazon packages would be to give up everything that we believe in'
erald Groff, a Christian former postal worker living in rural southeast Pennsylvania, says he was not allowed to observe Sabbath on Sundays and was punished when he did not work those days.
“The stakes are much bigger than Sabbath observance,” says Elizabeth Sepper, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin and expert on religious liberty. The case’s far reaching implications in workplaces could affect the ability for Muslim women to wear a hijab, Jews to wear a yarmulke, or Rastafarians to wear their hair in dreadlocks. It could affect religious employees’ ability to attend scheduled prayer services such as Jummah or Sunday church.
Groff is not asking for blanket acceptance of religious accommodations but rather more intentional scrutiny about what constitutes an “undue hardship.” That could mean requiring the employer to show evidence of difficulty in light of their financial resources, number of workers, and the nature of its operation before excusing an employee from accommodations, Barclay says.
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