WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to rule on extending federal civil rights law to protect workers who seek to take time off for religious observance.
The justices voted to hear an appeal from a former U.S. postal worker and evangelical Christian who was disciplined and eventually quit because he refused to deliver packages on Sundays.
His case highlighted a long-standing dispute over whether employers must “reasonably accommodate” an employee’s religious observance or instead may refuse if doing so posed even a minor hardship for their business.
