Catholic Charities Is Not Exempt from Unemployment Compensation Statute

Religion Clause ^ | 12/15/22 | Howard Friedman

[marshmallow]

In Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. State of Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission, (WI App., Dec. 13, 2022), a Wisconsin state appellate court held that Catholic Charities and its sub-entities are not exempt from the Wisconsin Unemployment Compensation Act as organizations "operated primarily for religious purposes." It emphasized that the statute should be "liberally construed to effect unemployment compensation coverage for workers who are economically dependent upon others in respect to their wage-earning status." The court said that it must look to the work of Catholic Charities, not the Catholic Church itself, to determine whether there is an exemption. Deciding that the court should look both to motives and activities, the court concluded that while Catholic Charities has a religious motivation for its work, the nature of its activities is not religious. The court said in part:

[T]he activities of CCB and its sub-entities are the provision of charitable social services that are neither inherently or primarily religious activities. CCB and its sub-entities do not operate to inculcate the Catholic faith; they are not engaged in teaching the Catholic religion, evangelizing, or participating in religious rituals or worship services with the social service participants; they do not require their employees, participants, or board members to be of the Catholic faith;

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

they do not require their employees, participants, or board members to be of the Catholic faith;

Which is how they will get churches.

So make sure all your employees, including your music director, is of your faith.

[WellyP]

Catholic “F”ING Charities is a 100% SCAM... THOSE BASTARDS are FLOODING THE COUNTRY WITH ILLEGALS, prepping them in Mexico and when they get here they’re busing them around the country. THOSE BASTARDS ARE IN TIGHT WITH THE CARTELS and are ASSISTING with HUMAN SMUGGLING and CHILD TRAFFICKING!

[combat_boots]

Red Frank has defrocked Father Pavone

[redgolum]

Wtf? Really?

[GOPJ]

It’s more like Catholic Marxist Scam Artists... Charities are easy to take over... Has the ‘Salvation Army’ sold out yet?

[Babba Gi]

I worked for a multi billion dollar Protestant hospital chain that hid behind it’s “church” status. Besides unemployment benefits, there were other ways they used their status to screw their employees. They kept their status a secret and employees weren’t aware that COBRA benefits weren’t available, until they needed them. They would coerce employees to resign rather than be fired or laid off. At least they weren’t prejudiced, they “ate their own” with the same amount of vigor.

[combat_boots]

Yup

https://www.ncregister.com/cna/breaking-vatican-dismisses-father-frank-pavone-from-priesthood

[redgolum]

I guess infanticide is to important.

Wow. A local priest raped Boys and was never kicked out.

[Colorado Doug]

You are exactly correct. They have nothing to do with the church. They also have variants for all the other religions, Lutheran Charities, etc. They rake in huge grants from the government as well.

[antidemoncrat]

Catholic Charities = illegal aliens best friends.