COURT DETERMINES THAT MINISTERIAL EXCEPTION DOES NOT APPLY TO RELIGION TEACHER

Religious institutions, including parochial schools, have an interest in correctly determining whether employees are “ministers.”  Due to the First Amendment’s Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses, religious organizations have wide discretion in choosing their own leaders and are thus exempt from generally applicable employment laws when it comes to ministers.  This week, in Biel v. St.…

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