Labor/Employment
Nov. 22, 2013
Employment law's 'ministerial exception'
The "ministerial exception" is a powerful defense for certain employers. By Michael Blacher and David Urban
Over 300 years ago, in 1687, a newly arrived English governor of New York, Thomas Dongan, reported home on a condition of chaos as to the establishment of any state-sponsored religion. "Every Town ought to have a Minister," he wrote. But "New York has first a Chaplain belonging to the Fort of the Church of England; Secondly, a Dutch Calvinist, thirdly a French Calvinist, fourthly a Dutch Lutheran. Here be not many...
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