Sherbert v. Verner

Appellant, a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was discharged by her South Carolina employer because she would not work on- Saturday, the Sabbath Day of her faith.1 When she was unable to obtain' other employment because from conscientious scruples' she would not take Saturday work,2 she filed a claim for *400unemployment compensation benefits under the South Carolina Unemployment -Compensation Act.3 That law provides that, to be eligible for benefits, a claimant must be “able to work and . . . available for work’.'; and, fur*401ther, that a claimant is ineligible for benefits “ [i] f . .…