Here's to future court victories: SCotUS refuses religious claim against Walgreens

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23. i can see that argument, which is why i can see why the supreme court decided not to hear the case

but my own view is that the employer shouldn't have scheduled him for saturday hours in the first place. they knew his religious objection and shouldn't have had an issue with scheduling other people who didn't have a problem with working saturdays.

i also don't know enough of the details, but it seems to me unlikely that they couldn't have found a way to avoid saturdays entirely.

i do understand that in the final instance, they had minimal notice that they had to close a call center and therefore they had very few days to choose from for the urgent training, but that doesn't explain the other days.


to my mind, the real question is whether or not the company could reasonably accommodate his religious restriction. i don't know enough about that business in particular, and it's entirely possible that saturdays were unavoidable. but i find it hard to believe that they couldn't have found a way to accommodate.

given that he told them up front he couldn't work saturdays, i find it hard to see as compelling his not showing up on a saturday as a argument for dismissal.