Supreme Court Raises Bar in Religious Accommodation Test (2)

The US Supreme Court unanimously created a higher standard for employers to measure the burden a worker’s religious accommodation request would impose on its business.

The justices on Thursday declined a Christian former US Postal Service worker’s bid to completely undo the high court’s 1977 decision in Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, which said employers only need to show that a requested religion-based accommodation under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act would impose a minimal, “undue” burden to be able to reject it.

Gerald Groff had objected to delivering packages for Amazon.com Inc. on Sundays and ...