Erasmus | Employment, law and religion

Private lives, public verdicts

in both America and Europe, courts are vindicating the right of religious groups to scrutinise their employees' lives

By B.C.

PEOPLE who work for religious organisations, or in jobs subject to religious control, should think carefully about the consequences for their personal lives. They cannot claim the right to privacy that an employee of a secular organisation would expect. That seems to be the message that courts on both sides of the Atlantic are handing down.

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