USPS Worker Whose Case Clarified Undue Hardship Test Gets Trial

A jury must decide if the US Postal Service unlawfully failed to accommodate an evangelical Christian letter carrier who asked not to work on Sundays, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled in a landmark case.

There are disputed fact issues on whether the USPS would experience undue hardship if it granted the worker a Sunday exemption, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said Thursday. The ruling came on remand from the US Supreme Court, which held in June 2023 that an employer must show accommodating an employee’s religion would impose substantial increased costs on its business to ...