{"id":303,"date":"2021-11-09T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=303"},"modified":"2022-06-03T21:45:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T07:45:30","slug":"usdol-announces-proposal-to-return-to-longstanding-policy-on-religious-exemption-for-federal-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/usdol-announces-proposal-to-return-to-longstanding-policy-on-religious-exemption-for-federal-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"USDOL Announces Proposal to Return to Longstanding Policy on Religious Exemption for Federal Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US Department of Labor (USDOL) announced its proposal to return to a longstanding policy for federal contractors on religious exemption, seeking to rescind the Trump administration rule that expanded federal contractors\u2019 religious exemption from anti-discrimination laws. That rule broadened the exemption to include employers who \u201chold themselves out to the public as carrying out a religious purpose.\u201d The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/11\/09\/2021-24376\/proposal-to-rescind-implementing-legal-requirements-regarding-the-equal-opportunity-clauses\" target=\"_blank\">proposal<\/a>\u00a0was published in the Federal Register on Nov. 9; public comments will be accepted until Dec. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Labor (USDOL) announced its proposal to return to a longstanding policy for federal contractors on religious exemption, seeking to rescind the Trump administration rule that expanded federal contractors\u2019 religious exemption from anti-discrimination laws. That rule broadened the exemption to include employers who \u201chold themselves out to the public as carrying out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}