Supreme Court Clarifies Standard for Employers Evaluating ...

On June 29, 2023, the US Supreme Court issued a decision clarifying the standard employers must apply in considering an employee's religious ...

Supreme Court Clarifies Standard For Assessing Whether A ...

The Court unanimously held that an employer must show “substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct of its particular business” to ...

Nearly 50 Years Later, the Supreme Court “Clarifies” the Undue ...

Hardison, 432 U.S. 63 (1977), and created a new, and much higher, standard. The heightened standard requires employers assessing religious ...

U.S. Supreme Court Ruling in Groff v. DeJoy Clarifies Heightened ...

With respect to the new “substantial increased costs” standard, the Court explained that employers must take into account “all relevant factors ...

U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies the Undue Hardship Standard for Title ...

Employers must now evaluate requests for religious accommodations using the higher standard. The burden on the employer is no longer “more than ...

Supreme Court Clarifies Standard for Undue Hardship for Religious ...

Employers must consider a more rigorous undue hardship standard than de minimis in religious accommodation decisions following the U.S. ...

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writing for the Court. Gibson Dunn. Appellate Honors. Today, the Supreme Court clarified the standard employers must satisfy to show that ...

New Supreme Court Ruling Clarifies Undue Hardship Standard ...

The Third Circuit had concluded that “requiring an employer to bear more than a de minimis cost to provide a religious accommodation is an undue ...

United States Supreme Court Clarifies Appropriate Standard for ...

In Groff v. DeJoy, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified the appropriate standard for courts and employers to utilize when assessing employee ...

The Supreme Court Clarifies the Appropriate Standard for Undue ...

Lower courts had long interpreted Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, 432 U.S. 63 (1977) as standing for the proposition that an employer ...

Supreme Court Clarifies Standard for Employers Claiming "Undue ...

The Court held that circuit courts have misapplied Hardison, affirming that employers' “undue hardship” defenses to religious accommodation ...

Supreme Court Clarifies Undue Hardship Standard in Religious ...

Before Groff, the prevailing standard for assessing undue hardship in religious accommodation claims was whether the employer would be required ...

U.S. Supreme Court “Clarifies” Standard for Employer Religious ...

On June 29, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Groff v. DeJoy, Postmaster General. The Groff decision sought to ...

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Court leaves the context-specific application of that clarified standard ... under the de minimis standard is left to “their employers' and ...

Supreme Court Clarifies Employer Test for Religious Accommodations

For almost 50 years, employers (and courts) considering requests for religious accommodation have evaluated whether the requested ...

U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Undue ‎Hardship Standard for ...

According to the Supreme Court, under the “correct” undue hardship standard, courts and employers must “take into account all relevant factors ...

Supreme Court Clarifies Standard Related to Employer ...

Hardison. Some lower courts had interpreted the Hardison decision as permitting employers to deny religious accommodations if they had “more ...

Supreme Court Revises Standard for Requiring Employers to ...

In addition to tightening the undue hardship standard, the Supreme Court emphasized two points. First, employers must evaluate the effect of the ...

Supreme Court Clarifies Standard for Religious Accommodations

Based on this language in Hardison, both lower courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) (29 CFR 1605.2(e)(1)) have ...

Supreme Court Announces a New Standard for Title VII Religious ...

The Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Groff v. DeJoy has curtailed an employer's ability to demonstrate an “undue hardship” when assessing an employee's ...