Will U.S. Supreme Court Place an Undue Hardship on Employers When It Decides Groff v. DeJoy?

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether its own definition of “undue hardship” with respect to religious accommodation requests, which employers have relied upon for more than 45 years, remains valid when it hears oral argument in Groff v. DeJoy, No. 22-174.

The Court will also consider whether an accommodation that burdens other employees can be said to burden the employer when analyzing undue hardship.

Oral argument is scheduled for April 18.

In the latest case in this area before the U.S. Supreme Court, petitioner Gerald Groff, who worked as a rural mail carrier for the United States Postal Service (USPS), challenges USPS’s denial of his requested religious accommodation to not work Sundays.