The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Filed a Lawsuit against IHOP for Violating Federal Law After Requiring an Employee to Work on Sundays

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency in the United States responsible for enforcing federal laws that prohibit workplace discrimination. This agency has just filed a lawsuit against the IHOP restaurant chain for firing an employee who refused to work on Sundays. The employee had requested a religious exemption that would prevent him from working on Sunday in order to respect his day of worship. His request, however, was turned down.

There are other legal actions aimed at defending Sunday rest that are currently being heard in federal court. Groff v. DeJoy, another similar case currently before the US Supreme Court, involves a worker who lost his job for refusing to deliver mail on Sunday because he maintains that his Christian faith forbids him from working on the Sabbath.

What makes these two cases significant is that we are seeing two federal lawsuits, one before the US Supreme Court, in which employees are suing their employers to force them to give them Sundays off. In Groff v. DeJoy, the US Supreme Court justices already heard oral arguments last month, and they will be announcing their decision before the court's current term ends in late June or early July. Whatever the court decides will often establish binding legal precedents that lower courts are required to follow. These precedents shape the interpretation and application of laws, and depending on the language they use, they will provide consistency all across the United States on how businesses ought to relate to religious accommodations and/or Sunday rest.

It is possible that the Roman Catholic majority on the US Supreme Court could go beyond the scope of the Court's authority by inferring that Sunday is a day of rest for Americans in their ruling. We are aware that the language used in Goff v. Dejoy essentially refers to Sunday as the Sabbath and a day of rest. The Court could overstep its bounds, as it has in the past, by creating a constitutional right (slavery, abortion rights, forced detention camps, and Sunday laws) that does not exist. That is one possible outcome.

Or the Court could limit its arguments to the idea that workers have the right to rest on any day, whether they want their day off on Saturday or Sunday. This would uphold the fact that the Constitution safeguards all sincerely held beliefs. This would be a more consistent interpretation and would protect everyone without favoring one group above another.

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