When the Blunt amendment, which would have given employers broad leeway to dispense with contraceptive coverage on religious or "moral" grounds, was debated in the Senate this week, its proponents argued that it was not about women, but about the freedom of religion — even though there are exemptions for churches, and the "moral" clause is wide enough to encompass an aversion to almost anything.
An increasingly common strategy for companies to better protect themselves is to change the language in their morals clauses to cover more contingencies.
Under Will H. Hays, a politically active lawyer, the Hays Office initiated a blacklist, inserted morals clauses into actors' contracts, and in 1930 developed the Production Code, which detailed what was morally acceptable on the screen.
It's also easier for companies to do this, because the so-called morals clauses in endorsement contracts have been expanded to cover a much wider range of behavior.
6. "Morals clauses" in employment and endorsement contracts may be violated by social media activities.
I have no problems with employers having morals clauses in people's contracts.
The truth is that sponsors, while they all have morals clauses in their celebrity contracts, don't go rushing to enforce them if the celeb winds up, say, as the lead story on Harvey Levin's TMZ television show.
Aflac invoked a morals clause in Mr. Gottfried's contract in dismissing him, Ms. Kane said.
With a morals clause, a company can define how much it will endure from an endorser.
Rogers also later recalled that the producers wanted to impose a contract that included "an old-fashioned morals clause.
"It has a morals clause," her boss, a plastic-looking blonde in a tight skirt, tells her.
