Seyfarth Synopsis: A unanimous Supreme Court has issued its decision in Groff v. Dejoy, clarifying Title VII’s undue hardship standard to mean “substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct of its particular business.” The Court effectively disavowed the long-standing de minimis standard from the seminal TWA v. Hardison case. The Court held that impacts of an accommodation on coworkers are only an undue hardship if the employer can also show that those impacts on coworkers affect the conduct of the business. It also held that the fact that an accommodation may force other employees to work overtime is not, by itself, sufficient to show undue hardship.
