DOL Plans to Rescind Religious Contractor Exemption Rule (1)

The Labor Department’s contractor compliance agency will propose to roll back a controversial Trump-era rule that broadened the defenses religious federal contractors can use when accused of workplace discrimination.

The DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs told a Southern District of New York judge Tuesday and a District of Oregon judge Wednesday that it “intends to propose rescission” of the rule “in the near future,” requesting stays in separate cases brought in January by a group of states and labor unions challenging the regulation.

The OFCCP wants the judge to pause the litigation for 90 days in light of ...