Justice Samuel Alito appears eager to overturn 50-year-old precedent in favor of Christian postal wo

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Justice Samuel Alito appears eager to overturn 50-year-old precedent in favor of Christian postal worker who refused to deliver Amazon packages on Sundays

The majority-conservative U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to overturn a decades-old legal precedent — one that has long set the rules for how far employers must go to accommodate their employees’ religious practices in the workplace.

The justices heard oral arguments Tuesday in the case of Gerald E. Groff, an evangelical Christian postal worker who says his religious freedom was violated when he was forced to surrender his job as the only means of avoiding delivering Amazon packages on weekends. Groff’s lawyers urged the justices to overrule the 1977 landmark case of Trans World Airlines v. Hardison, which interpreted the requirements of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for religious accommodations in employment.

In that case, the Supreme Court held that employers could not fire workers for practicing their religion unless the employer can show that accommodating the religious practice would pose an “undue hardship” on the employer that would require more than a minimal cost.

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Prelogar told the justices she has “great attachment” to the body of law developed after Hardison on which many employers have long relied to shape their employment policies. She urged the Court not to “just throw it up for grabs” and rule to make well-settled precedent irrelevant for employers to understand their obligations to employees.

Alito, though, did not appear convinced.



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[elleng]

1. Not surprised.

[jimfields33]

2. Unfortunately it's a mess.

The employee was hired when Sunday delivery didn’t exist. You would think the USPS would have made an exception for him. I mean it’s one person. I’d bet many would love to work Sunday for the extra hourly wage you get. Where’s the Union to help mediate this?

[dsc]

6. there was a set of rules about working on Sunday that the union negotiated

and the postoffice was very small making the one person who would and could work Sunday had to work all Sundays

[okaawhatever]

7. They did try to accommodate him, but it puts a burden on the other employees

As the Unions pointed out.

[jimfields33]

13. Thank you! Mt reading comprehension failed me again.

Thank you for getting that point across.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Duh. He yearns for a complete Christian theocracy.

[Chainfire]

4. My religion forbids me from working over 16 hours a week and demands full pay.

[czarjak]

5. A Catholic ruling in favor of an Evangelical?

They'll eat you last, Your Honor.

[okaawhatever]

8. This will put SCOTUS and GOP supporting businesses at odds. nt

[Freethinker65]

9. Am fine with this ONLY for those grandfathered in

Those long time employees that were hired well before new Sunday policy was instated.

If this stands for all employees, even new hires, at all places of business, it would be a nightmare.

You hired me to work at your BBQ place but I can't touch anything with pork so I am entitled to accommodations? I took the job of phlebotomist, but must abstain from modern medicine and blood transfusion because of my religion so I require accommodations? My religion is against transgenders, so I request to never work on the same days as...?

[azureblue]

12. or

I can refuse to wait on people who eat pork, have tattoos, wear two types of cloth at the same time.. Oh, the Christianist crowd is going to love this one, "sorry sir, yes I see you just came from church, but you have a tattoo and my religion says you are a sinner in the eyes of God, so I am not to sully myself by waiting on your table. Sinner! Stone him!"

[DFW]

16. You can just refuse to serve people who order meat or fish

One of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not kill."

If someone orders anything at all with beef, pork, veal, chicken, turkey, salmon, shrimp, bison, lamb, etc., just say, "sorry but I am Christian, and my bible clearly says not to kill. If you would order something that required killing to obtain its meat, you are disobeying the commandments of God, and I cannot serve you."

When the obvious response of "God meant that only for humans!" comes, just answer with, "Did God tell you that personally? How dare you tell me, a devout Christian, what God meant? He never told you that. He'd have told me first, and I didn't hear a peep. Not even an SMS!"

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

10. Alito needs to go.

[azureblue]

11. so he just made the case for sovereign citizens

If he rules that, then anyone can claim "religious exemption" for all sorts of things. Including obeying laws.

[VGNonly]

15. What's your franchise?

[Judi Lynn]

19. Great! Thank you. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Doc_Technical]

17. This is the U.S. Postal Service.

The Friday after Thanksgiving is not a holiday.
Easter Sunday is not a holiday.
Our workweek begins on a Saturday.
When my scheduled days off was changed from Saturday-Sunday
to Thursday-Friday, I had to work 10 days straight for straight time pay.

If you complain to management, their answer is,
"I had to eat shit for 20 years and now it's your turn".

You either eat shit and like it or quit.

[Buckeyeblue]

18. I've said this before but why don't we make people prove their religious beliefs?

As an atheist, this infuriates me. I'm meet far too many people who claim they are Christians that are absolutely shit people. But no one questions their so called beliefs.

I think their should be a test or something.