SCOTUS Case: Mail Carrier Refuses Sunday Work

A Christian mail carrier is suing the U.S. Postal Service. The carrier claims his postmaster refused to accommodate his request to not work on Sundays. Gerald Groff said his managers started putting pressure on him to work Sundays after Amazon contracted deliveries seven days a week. He said before that, his manager scheduled other workers to deliver packages on Sundays, but after multiple disciplinary hearings, Groff resigned in 2019, then filed a lawsuit. Under Title Seven of the Civil Rights Act employers are required to accommodate employees’ religious practices unless it negatively impacts the business. Government lawyers argue that his request negatively affects other employees and therefore impacts the business. The high court is expected to decide this case before the end of its current term in late June.