EEOC Moves to Strengthen Religious Accommodation Rights Post-Groff: Key Insights for Employers
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is beginning to clarify an employer’s burden in workplace religious accommodation cases after the Supreme Court of the United States’ Groff v. DeJoy decision in 2023. Two post-Groff federal workforce decisions suggest that employers must engage in a robust and well-documented interactive process in identifying religious reasonable accommodations and that employers’ undue hardship burden has become more difficult, while employees’ burden has lessened. The EEOC likely will apply the same analysis to the private sector.