WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider whether an employee’s religious rights can require workplace accommodations that burden co-workers, in a case involving a substitute mail carrier who refused to take Sunday shifts because of his evangelical faith. Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has been redrawing the line between church and state, finding that secular interests often must yield when religious rights are asserted. Although Tuesday’s case involves a government agency, the U.S. Postal Service, the outcome, expected by July, likely will affect private employers that also are covered by provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act requiring them to “reasonably accommodate” a worker’s “religious observance or practice without undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business.” Read More...
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider whether an employee’s religious rights can require workplace accommodations that burden co-workers, in a case involving a substitute mail carrier who refused to take Sunday shifts because of his evangelical faith. Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has been redrawing the line between church and state, finding that secular interests often must yield when religious rights are asserted. Although Tuesday’s case involves a government agency, the U.S. Postal Service, the outcome, expected by July, likely will affect private employers that also are covered by provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act requiring them to “reasonably accommodate” a worker’s “religious observance or practice without undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business.”
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