{"id":38070,"date":"2023-06-29T10:14:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=38070"},"modified":"2023-06-29T10:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:14:16","slug":"supreme-court-rules-for-christian-mail-carrier-who-refused-to-work-sundays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/supreme-court-rules-for-christian-mail-carrier-who-refused-to-work-sundays\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court rules for Christian mail carrier who refused to work Sundays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for employees to seek religious accommodations in a case involving a lawsuit brought by an evangelical Christian mail carrier who asked not to work on Sundays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case involved a claim brought by a Pennsylvania man, Gerald Groff<\/a>, who says the U.S. Postal Service could have granted his request that he be spared Sunday shifts based on his religious belief that it is a day of worship and rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His case will now return to lower courts for further litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groff argued that it was too difficult for employees to bring religious claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits workplace discrimination on various fronts, including religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The justices in a unanimous ruling written by conservative Justice Samuel Alito clarified <\/strong>a 1977 Supreme Court ruling called Trans World Airlines v. Hardison. The court said then that employers are not required to make accommodations if they would impose even a minimal or, using the Latin term preferred by the court, \u201cde minimis,\u201d burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for employees to seek religious accommodations in a case involving a lawsuit brought by an evangelical Christian mail carrier who asked not to work on Sundays. The case involved a claim brought by a Pennsylvania man, Gerald Groff, who says the U.S. Postal Service could have granted his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":30851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/SUPREME-COURT.png?fit=700%2C446&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38071,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38070\/revisions\/38071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}