The Church and Employment Law
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The Church and Employment Law

A Comparative Analysis of The Legal Status of Clergy and Religious Workers

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The Church and Employment Law

A Comparative Analysis of The Legal Status of Clergy and Religious Workers

About this book

This book examines the current law on the employment status of ministers of religion together with religious workers and volunteers and suggests reforms in this area of the law to meet the need for ministers to be given a degree of employment protection. It also considers the constant theme in Christian history that the clergy should not be subject to the ordinary courts and asks whether this is justified with the growth of areas such as employment law. The work questions whether it is possible to arrive at a satisfactory definition of who is a minister of religion and, along with this, who would be the employer of the minister if there was a contract of employment. Taking a comparative perspective, it evaluates the case law on the employment status of Christian and non-Christian clergy and assesses whether this shows any coherent theme or line of development. The work also considers the issue of ministerial employment status against the background of the autonomy of churches and other religious bodies from the State, together with their ecclesiology. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of law and religion, employment law and religious studies, together with both legal practitioners and human resources practitioners in these areas.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780367553173
eBook ISBN
9781000804980

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Preface
  10. PART 1 Who are the clergy and religious workers and who is their employer?
  11. PART 2 The status of ministers of religion in employment law
  12. PART 3 The perspectives from church-state relations and from the churches themselves and a possible way forward
  13. General Index
  14. Table of Cases
  15. Table of Statutes

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