The Supreme Court sided with a Christian mail carrier who declined to work on Sundays, bolstering protections for workers seeking religious accommodations from their employers.
This latest dispute arose from Groff's objections to working on Sundays after the Postal Service entered into an agreement with Amazon for Sunday package deliveries. Groff, an Evangelical Christian, said his religious beliefs prevented him from working those days because he observes the Sabbath on Sunday.
The postmaster of the Holtwood Post Office refused to exempt Groff from Sunday delivery, but offered to seek volunteers to cover his shifts. Still, he ultimately missed 24 shifts when a replacement carrier couldn't be secured to accommodate his absence. The appeals court found that exempting Groff from working on Sundays"caused more than a de minimis cost on USPS because it actually imposed on his coworkers, disrupted the workplace and workflow, and diminished employee morale."
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