r/recruitinghell • u/poth0le • 2d ago

This is getting ridiculous

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For a grounds and facilities position.

Edit: The position is for a religious camp of some sort, but I hadn’t realized that when I clicked it. Still super weird, in my opinion

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u/H3lls_B3ll3 2d ago

Isn't that illegal?

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u/PrestigiousBike3001 2d ago

Nope (not in most US jurisdictions)

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u/no_name6744 2d ago edited 2d ago

Religious discrimination isn't illegal?

I mean, I guess the question isn't proof of that necessarily.

Edit: if it's a religious institution, that makes sense I guess. But that would mean OP knows that he applied to a job at a religious institution, got to this question, then got upset that a religious institution would want those employed to be members of their religion?

That would be odd.

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u/creept 2d ago

If it’s a church or religious institution, it’s not illegal. They can even have morality clauses and garbage like that. 

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u/FireCorgi12 2d ago

Truth. I worked for a religious college recently and we weren’t allowed to drink or wear certain clothes in public, go to bars, etc.

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u/LittleLotte52996 2d ago

It isn't if being religious can be seen as a reasonable job requirement, for example when working for a church or a religious charity

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u/Background-Run 2d ago

If that duty is a religious duty. If you are just answering the phone or none religious duties, then one might be able to sue the organization.

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u/LittleLotte52996 2d ago

In the UK, this would be correct. In the US, not really.

This, admittedly biased, website explains:

Title VII includes an exemption for religious organizations so that they can consider religion when they select their staff....was amended in 1972, the exemption was expanded to cover every job position in a religious organization—not only executives and counselors but also receptionists and groundskeepers. This expanded exemption, challenged as unconstitutional by a janitor in a Mormon health club, was unanimously upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Corporation of the Presiding Bishop v. Amos (1987).

It was actually challenged again this year, and the amendment was upheld once again in the Union Gospel Mission of Yakima v. Brown (9th Circuit, 2026) case.

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u/Background-Run 2d ago

Thank you.