Supreme Court considers religious accommodations in workplace dispute.

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Supreme Court considers religious accommodations in workplace dispute.
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The Supreme Court is hearing a case involving a postal worker who refused to work on Sundays due to his Christian religious beliefs. The worker sued the USPS for violating Title VII, a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on religion. The USPS argued that accommodating the worker's request would cause an undue hardship. The 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed this ruling, but a dissenting judge argued that the law requires the USPS to show how the proposed accommodation would harm "business" rather than the worker's coworkers. The Biden administration has urged the court to clarify the law to make clear that an employer is not required to accommodate an employee's Sabbath observance by "operating shorthanded or regularly paying overtime to secure replacement workers."

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