COMMENTARY BY the Supreme Court upheld the right of an employee to be granted a religious accommodation by his employer unless doing so would substantially affect the employer’s business. boonchai wedmakawand / Getty Images Key Takeaways In Groff v. DeJoy, the high court reiterated that employees must not be forced to choose between their faith and their job. An employer must demonstrate that it would result in “substantial increased costs”…before the employer may deny an employee’s [religious accommodation] request. Thanks to the court’s unanimous decision, the scales of justice—once weighted heavily in favor of employers—now have been level-set. In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the right of an employee to be granted a religious accommodation by his employer unless doing so would substantially affect the employer’s business. In Groff v. DeJoy , the high court reiterated that employees must not be forced to choose between their faith and their job, and finally clarified long-standing precedent that had been largely misunderstood and used to deny religious accommodations to employees for years. The petitioner in the case, Gerald Groff, had asked the justices to determine whether his employer, the U.S. Postal Service, […]
