by Allen B. Roberts, Amy J. Traub, and Christina J. Fletcher
Religious organizations and those they employ have anticipated guidance from the U.S. Supreme Court's first opinion addressing the ministerial exception in the employment discrimination context. With its January 11, 2012, decision in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & Sch. v. EEOC, U.S., No. 10-553, the Court clarified that the First Amendment's Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses bar the government from interfering with the "decision of a religious group to fire one of its ministers." The Court ...
Blog Editors
Recent Updates
- Attention Connecticut Warehouse Employers: Deadline for New Quota Notices Approaching
- New Jersey Department of Labor’s Guidance Clarifies Expanded Job Protected Leave Rights for Employees
- New York City Publishes Final Rules Related to the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act
- Watch: Beyond the EEOC - the Widening Divide in Disparate Impact Enforcement - Employment Law This Week
- The Death of Disparate Impact? What Recent DOJ Guidance Signals to Employers