Sentences with phrase «on basis of religion»

Laws providing protection from discrimination on the basis of religion and belief are patchwork across Australia (p 105).

Some Australians are protected from discrimination on the basis of religion and belief by State and Territory laws but many others are not.

(d) It is arguable that public servants are more likely to discriminate on the basis of religion against recipients of their service who themselves are wearing symbols (ostentatious or not) of their religious beliefs.

I'd also be curious, I don't generally deal with discrimination issues, if a firm declines to interview or hire people because they attended TWU, or requires «assurances» that they don't from anyone else, isn't that in effect discrimination on the basis of religion?

The majority's decision gave considerable weight to those claims, but emphasized that there is no hierarchy of rights under the Charter, such that the those claims must be balanced against the co-equal claims to religious freedom (and freedom from discrimination on the basis of religion).

Indeed, by refusing to recongize TWU students as potential lawyers, based on the religious tenets of TWU, they are prima - facie discriminating on the basis of their religion.

The Court of Appeal held that such a provision violated equality laws in the UK by requiring discrimination on the basis of religion.

If you are being harassed at work because of your religious beliefs, have been discriminated against in employment on the basis of religion, have been denied a reasonable accommodation for your religious beliefs, or have been retaliated against for complaining about harassment or discrimination, you should contact an experienced employment lawyer.

When the Charter was introduced in 1982, it did not use this terminology and instead prohibited discrimination on the basis of religion.

Mrs Pendleton brought proceedings in the employment tribunal arguing that she had been indirectly discriminated against on the basis of her religion or belief.

A degree of impotence The impotence of the EA 2006 is surprising given the trend towards affording the same degree of protection from discrimination on the basis of religion as for ethnic origin.

Generally, an individual can not be discriminated against on the basis of religion.

A Florida condo unit owner has filed a complaint with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, claiming that her condo association has discriminated against her on the basis of religion aft...

This doesn't imply the federal government makes its decisions on the basis of religion.

The EO is intended to discriminate on the basis of religion and in fact does so in violation of the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Mr. Hoffer growls at my «justifying science on the basis of religion».

Merely to mention religion in passing, in what was originally a speech for an audience that would be able to appreciate the context, is not the same thing as «justifying science on the basis of religion».

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, (1) it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to hire and employ employees, for an employment agency to classify, or refer for employment any individual, for a labor organization to classify its membership or to classify or refer for employment any individual, or for an employer, labor organization, or joint labor - management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining programs to admit or employ any individual in any such program, on the basis of his religion, sex, or national origin in those certain instances where religion, sex, or national origin is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise, and (2) it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for a school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning to hire and employ employees of a particular religion if such school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning is, in whole or in substantial part, owned, supported, controlled, or managed by a particular religion or by a particular religious corporation, association, or society, or if the curriculum of such school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning is directed toward the propagation of a particular religion.

«Nevada's voucher program allows private religious schools to use taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate and discriminate against students on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and other grounds,» she added.

[18] discriminate against students on the basis of religion and sexual identity: http://ajf.org/private-christian-schools-receiving-taxpayer-funded-school-vouchers-continue-exclude-students-basis-religion-sexual-identity/

Schools receiving Opportunity Scholarship funds discriminate against students on the basis of religion and sexual identity.

This means that these private schools may accept or dismiss students on the basis of religion, gender identity, and disability status.

In most voucher programs, private religious schools are permitted to discriminate on the basis of religion in hiring and admission.

If his authoritarian impulses turn into authoritarian actions — rounding up law - abiding immigrants, discriminating against people on the basis of religion — we must stand up to him and push back.

Hinds also told The Sunday Times that he would abolish a ban on new faith schools taking in more than 50 per cent of pupils on the basis of their religion — a policy which has prevented the Catholic Church opening any free schools.

A court could easily conclude that excluding religious schools from voucher programs constitutes discrimination on the basis of religion.

These provisions, which have gone virtually unnoticed in the voucher debates thus far, represent a much more serious obstacle to voucher programs because they do not discriminate on the basis of religion.

The equal protection clause and the free exercise clause both prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion unless there is some compelling reason for the discrimination.

By a 2 - to - 1 vote, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the state agency's decision, holding that it «facially discriminates on the basis of religion.»

The state «may not offer a benefit to all,» the Court concluded, «but exclude some on the basis of religion.»

According to the bill's sponsor, Democratic Senator L. Douglas Wilder of Richmond, the measure would have denied tax exempt status to schools that discriminated on the basis of race, but not on the basis of religion.

Respondents from other religious backgrounds were more enthusiastic about the removal of the cap: 43 per cent of Muslims and 55 per cent of Jews were in favour of allowing schools to select all pupils on the basis of religion.

There have been pockets of instances where perceived homosexuals have been attacked by those against the practice either on the basis of religion or culture.

as part of its Free Schools Programme, effectively meaning that almost no new state faith school can select more than half of their places on the basis of religion.

On Section 27 (c), he advised that the word «voting or» should be deleted, since the reason for voting is personal and replaced with «causing to vote» on the basis of religion, community, caste, tribe, language or region.

On the principle of faith schools, 37 % thought there should be faith shools, 59 % disagreed (although the wording was a bit harsh — the anti-faith school argument said «schools should be for everyone regardless of religion», so it's possible some people who picked that option may have supported faith schools if they were not allowed to select on the basis of religion).

The law around «faith» school employment in England, in allowing religious schools to widely discriminate — often against every teacher — on the basis of religion in who they employ, is «arbitrary» and goes beyond what is permitted by European law.

e. Ensures that selection in admissions on the basis of religion or belief to state - funded schools is phased out over up to six years.

The European Employment Directive only allows employers to discriminate against employees on the basis of religion where there is «a genuine, legitimate and justified occupational requirement» (GOR) that the employee shares the faith of the school.

He equally charged those who might want to use the development to fan the embers of religious or ethnic hatred to remember that two wrongs would never make a right, and that when law and order breaks down, those who become victims are never distinguished on the basis of religion or ethnicity.

Speaking in support of the amendment, Baroness Massey said that «my chief concern is the fostering of segregation in schools on the basis of religion... I believe that all schools should include and educate all pupils together so that they can learn from each other instead of being segregated on religious and other grounds.»

One should also appreciate the fact that though an institution founded by Christian Missions, considering the inter-religious character of the academic community of the college, the founders emphasized the Christian «values» of self - giving service to the poor and concern for the whole person rather than Christian salvation, thereby somewhat separating the common «culture» and values of humanism of academic community of the college, from the Christian «religion» and thus relatively secularizing it to keep the academic community free from discrimination on the basis of religion.

Therefore the adherents of all religions and no religion have the same status and rights of citizenship including freedom of religion / belief and freedom from discrimination in civic life on the basis of religion / belief.

A Maryland town hall attendee who works for Secular Coalition for America asked Obama about statements he made as a candidate in 2008 when he said, «If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them - or against the people you hire - on the basis of their religion.»

But time brings change, and next week my foundation is hosting a symposium in Southern California where the gap between science and spirituality will be narrow somewhat, not on the basis of religion but on the basis of consciousness.

It's not fair that my tax dollars are used to support an organization that won't hire me on the basis of my religion.

And I would add that since there is no god, and religion is a fairy tale, those that discriminate on the basis of religion are basically being bigots for no reason whatsoever.

Mr Ellwood said: «We strongly condemn the persecution of Christians and other minorities on the basis of their religion or belief or ethnicity.

If these organizations are receiving aid specifically for purposes that have nothing to do with their religion but more to do with secular issues, which is what the standard is, why are we even entertaining the idea that they can discriminate on the basis of religion which, if they receive funding, should have nothing to do with what their organization is supposed to be doing?

One form of discrimination conspicuous by its absence is a concern for prejudice on the basis of religion.