Civil liberties advocates oppose President Joe Biden’s proposed rescission of a Trump-era broadening of a regulatory exemption protecting religious employers from being forced to hire individuals who don’t share the organization’s faith views or practices.
In a proposed rule posted Nov. 9 on the Federal Register for official public comment, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) said it had proposed in 2019 a revision that’s now viewed as going too far in broadening the definition of “religious freedom” in hiring by federal contractors and subcontractors.
