The decision in Groff presents a higher bar for employers to meet in order to deny an accommodation request for religious reasons, Tracey Diamond, partner at Troutman Pepper, said in an email to HR Dive. The court made several other clarifications, she added, including that employers must reasonably accommodate an employee’s religious practice, “not merely say yes or no to a particular possible accommodation.”
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