Jenny Pizer The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs on Monday, Dec. 7, issued a final rule that dramatically expands the ability of federal contractors to claim religious exemptions from federal nondiscrimination and equal employment opportunity laws and regulations.
In a press release from Lambda Legal, Jennifer Pizer, the organization’s director of law and policy, called the rule “grotesquely over-broad.” “It is hard to overstate the harm that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is visiting on LGBTQ people, women, religious minorities and others with the sledgehammer it is taking to federal nondiscrimination protections,” Pizer said. “For nearly 80 years, it has been a core American