Vax Mandate Suits Get Lift From New Religious Accommodation Test

Workers with religious objections to vaccine mandates have stronger legal claims now that the US Supreme Court has developed a new standard strengthening protections for workplace religious accommodations.

The court unanimously ruled June 29 that an employer cannot deny a religious accommodation under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act unless it can show that the burden of granting that accommodation “would result in substantial increased costs” to the business.

This change will impact faith-related discrimination cases currently winding their way through the administrative and judicial system, including those concerning Covid-19 vaccine mandates, lawyers told Bloomberg Law.

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