2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 344 - CIVIL RIGHTS 344.090 Religion or national origin, employment discrimination not unlawful in certain cases.
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344.090 Religion or national origin, employment discrimination not unlawful
in certain cases.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of KRS 344.030 to 344.110, it is not an
unlawful practice for:
(1) An employer to hire and employ employees, or an employment agency to
classify, or refer for employment an individual, for a labor organization to
classify its membership or to classify or refer for employment an individual, or
for an employer, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee
controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining programs to admit or
employ an individual in any such program, on the basis of his religion or
national origin in those certain instances where religion or national origin is a
bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal
operation of that particular business or enterprise.
(2) A religious corporation, association, or society to employ an individual on the
basis of his religion to perform work connected with the carrying on by such
corporation, association, or society of its religious activity.
(3) A school, college, university, or other educational institution to hire and employ
employees of a particular religion if the school, college, university, or other
educational institution is, in whole or 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 the school, college,
university, or other educational institution is directed toward the propagation of
a particular religion and the choice of employees is calculated by such
organization to promote the religious principles for which it is established or
maintained.
History: Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 2, Art. 3, sec. 308.
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