The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling reviving the debate on religious accommodations in the workplace sent a glaring message to employers: They had better have a good reason for denying an employee’s request.

But what constitutes a good reason? Experts say the ruling makes that harder to determine, though it does set the bar higher for employers to show that an accommodation would be an “undue hardship.”

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