Catholic Charities’ activities are not religious, Wisconsin court rules
December 16, 2022
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CWN Editor's Note: Organizations “operated primarily for religious purposes” are exempt from the Wisconsin Unemployment Compensation Act.
Siding with two state agencies (the Department of Workforce Development and the Labor and Industry Review Commission), a state court has ruled that Catholic Charities provides “charitable social services that are neither inherently or primarily religious activities”—and that Catholic Charities is thus bound by the provisions of the Act.
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