Oklahoma § 25-1308 - Exceptions

§ 25-1308. Exceptions

It is not a discriminatory practice:

1. For an employer to hire and employ an employee, 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 an

apprenticeship or other training or retraining program to admit or

employ an individual in the program, on the basis of religion, sex,

national origin, age, disability, or genetic information if such

action is related to a bona fide occupational qualification

reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the business or

enterprise; or

2. For a school, college, university, or other educational

institution to hire and employ an employee 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.

Added by Laws 1968, c. 388, § 308. Amended by Laws 1981, c. 231, §

7; Laws 1985, c. 165, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 2011, c. 270, §

8, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 25. Definitions and General Provisions