Source: http://telioslaw.com/content-index/religious-staffing?start=10
Timestamp: 2017-05-24 04:19:09
Document Index: 160066480

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 6', 'art 5', 'art 6', 'art 2', 'art 4', 'art 3', 'art 2', 'art 1', 'art 7']

Search Published in Risk and Vulnerability Part 6: Risk and Vulnerability You raise several questions. The only one I’m going to get to today relates to how to prepare missionaries to go overseas—what kind of vision statement or consent to danger and difficulty would we recommend? Perhaps the most practical approach would be to have a waiver more like the legal documents that we’re familiar with, but have a paragraph in the waiver refer to the missionary’s own vision statement and acceptance of risk as part of that vision statement. Then each missionary could explain what he or she hopes to accomplish, why he or she is called, and why (or whether) such a calling is worth encountering disease, violence, or other disasters. Read more... Published in Risk and Vulnerability Part 5: Risk and Vulnerability Hi Theresa. Thanks for this post, and thanks for reminder and link to the article. That was one of the earlier things we discussed, and it is nice to revisit it because it is so useful here.
I really like the idea of the missionary writing the consent in their own language, or at least having the missionary’s position incorporated into the documents. Read more... Published in Assessments and Legal and Ethical Psychology in Missions Part 6: Legal Problems with Pre-Employment Evaluations There has been a lot of back and forth about how the mission must take care during prefield screening not to run afoul of the ADA. I agree. Under the ADA, before you can give an applicant a “medical examination,” which includes most psychological screenings, you have to first consider all the non-medical information and hand out a conditional offer. Read more... Published in Church Autonomy and Ministerial Exception Part 2: An Update: Testing the PLU Standard This post is update to the "Labor Unions at Christian Colleges? NLRB Thinks So" post. Read more... Published in Risk and Vulnerability Part 4: Risk and Vulnerability Hi Brent,
The very nature of missions is that we have to be willing to take up our cross and die for Christ. Most of the great missions biographies show us people living very difficult lives and even being martyred. Our brothers and sister in many countries are being martyred right now. Read more... Published in Risk and Vulnerability Part 3: Risk and Vulnerability Well done, Theresa! I thought you tried to cover a lot of things there, some of which we have talked about in other blogs in the past. But you got me thinking about a particular issue that revolves around the theology or missiology of suffering. I have suggested to a number of mission agencies that they intentionally have missionaries take into account the reality of the hardship of cross-cultural ministry, and the fact that there may be very bad outcomes at certain times and in certain places. Read more... Published in Risk and Vulnerability Part 2: Risk and Vulnerability Hi Brent. It’s no surprise to me that New Zealand, being fairly socialized, would pass such an Act. One small consolation may be that the Act likely cannot be enforced against those who are not New Zealand employers. For one thing, it would be hard to get jurisdiction over them. And even in New Zealand, it will take awhile to develop a body of case law around the legislation. Read more... Published in Risk and Vulnerability Part 1: Risk and Vulnerability Hi Theresa! A recent issue of the online newsletter Missions Interlink from New Zealand has an article about the 2016 “Health and Safety at Work Act” and its application for missions. Read more... Published in Psychological Assessment Part 7: Psychological Assessment— Legal Diagnosis as well as Psychological Diagnosis Brent, you point out correctly that not all problems with people getting along require some kind of psychological diagnosis. Some just relate to spiritual or emotional maturity, and may need pastoral counseling, coaching, or even just plain employment discipline. Some problems with people getting along trigger legal issues, and some do not.
Read more... Published in Church Autonomy and Ministerial Exception The Court Prevents a Former Minister from Suing his Church for Defamation Defamation claims against religious organizations are more common than you would think. It’s almost impossible to challenge who a religious organization selects as a minister or how it disciplines that minister. So these claims focus on the idea that what was said about the minister is defamatory—something that is not directly controlled by constitutional law. Here is a recent example of a case that ultimately had an indirect constitutional defense. Read more... Subscribe to this RSS feed
1234...67Page 2 of 7	Browse By Topic