The Supreme Court agreed to take up the case of a former US Postal Service worker who wants the justices to revisit a decades-old test for determining whether employers can deny religious accommodation requests.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up the case of a former US Postal Service worker who wants the justices to revisit a decades-old test for determining whether employers can deny religious accommodation requests. Conservatives have long sought to throw out the standard set in 1977, arguing it sets too low a bar for employers to meet when denying requests by religious adherents.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar urged the justices in court papers to not take up the case, citing the lower court decisions and arguing that Groff’s case is a bad vehicle for revisiting the Hardison case since meeting his request “would qualify as an undue hardship” on USPS. “As noted, simply skipping petitioner in the rotation for Sunday work would have violated both a collectively bargained and a specific settlement,” she wrote in a brief.
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