On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Groff v. DeJoy that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires an employer that denies a religious accommodation to show that the burden of granting an accommodation would result in substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct of its particular business. In doing so, the Supreme Court revised the undue hardship standard under which employers may deny a religious accommodation to be significantly more employee-friendly. As a result, the Court remanded the case for application of the new standard to the facts at issue to determine whether the employer violated Title VII by failing to provide the requested accommodation.
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