{"id":109,"date":"2023-01-26T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/2023\/01\/26\/governor-ivey-announces-workforce-at-new-record-high-al-maintains-historically-low-unemployment\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T20:47:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T20:47:50","slug":"governor-ivey-announces-workforce-at-new-record-high-al-maintains-historically-low-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/2023\/01\/26\/governor-ivey-announces-workforce-at-new-record-high-al-maintains-historically-low-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Ivey Announces Workforce at New Record High; Al. Maintains Historically Low Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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MONTGOMERY<\/span> <\/span>\u2014 Governor Kay Ivey on Friday signed Executive Order 733, \u201cPromoting and Defending Religious Liberty Through Implementation of the Alabama Religious Freedom Amendment,\u201d to further strengthen protections for religious liberty in Alabama.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cReligious freedom is the cornerstone of the American way of life, and as governor, I will always protect the rights of Alabamians and ensure they are free to exercise their beliefs as provided in the Constitution,\u201d said Governor Ivey. \u201cAs I have promised, under my watch, our state government will always reflect the values of our people.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Executive Order 733 ensures the enforcement of the Alabama Religious Freedom Amendment, which was proposed and ratified in 1998 as a reaction to federal court decisions viewed as hostile to the free exercise of religion.<\/span><\/div>\n

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To that end, the order specifically sets out several well-established legal principles providing religious-liberty protections for professionals and businesses holding a government license, state contractors, grant recipients, recipients of government benefits and state employees. For example, one provision requires state executive-branch agencies to consider potential burdens on religious exercise when they adopt administrative rules. Another provision requires agencies to allow state employees to express their faith to the same extent that they allow employee expression that is not religious in nature.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Governor Ivey has a record of protecting religious freedom in the state of Alabama. Most recently, Governor Ivey met with the Oakwood Academy boys\u2019 basketball team after the Seventh Day Adventist school was forced to forfeit its playoff game due to the team\u2019s observance of Sabbath. The Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) policy that forced the team\u2019s forfeiture has since been amended to accommodate faith-based scheduling requests. <\/span><\/div>\n

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The governor is committed to ensuring Alabama\u2019s government will always reflect the values of its people.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MONTGOMERY \u2014 Governor Kay Ivey on Friday signed Executive Order 733, \u201cPromoting and Defending Religious Liberty Through Implementation of the Alabama Religious Freedom Amendment,\u201d to further strengthen protections for religious liberty in Alabama. \u201cReligious freedom is the cornerstone of the American way of life, and as governor, I will always protect the rights of Alabamians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}