All items: Religion or belief discrimination

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  Abdi v Royal Mail Group plc [2007] ET/1401724/06 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest: Religion or belief discrimination

    Date:

    1 April 2008

    Sue Johnstone, editor of Equal Opportunities Review, provides a round-up of some of the remedies that employment tribunals have awarded in religion or belief discrimination cases.

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  Achbita and another v G4S Secure Solutions [2017] IRLR 466 ECJ (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Religious discrimination: Prohibition of visible signs of belief did not amount to direct discrimination

    Date:

    24 September 2017

    In Achbita and another v G4S Secure Solutions [2017] IRLR 466 ECJ, the ECJ held that an employer's rule prohibiting employees from wearing any visible signs of belief, including the hijab, did not amount to direct discrimination.

  • Indirect discrimination: religious dress ban for public-facing roles can be justified

    Date:

    14 March 2017

    The European Court of Justice has held that a ban on religious dress that prevents a Muslim woman from wearing an Islamic headscarf when in contact with clients cannot be directly discriminatory, but is potentially indirectly discriminatory.

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  Advocate General's opinion in Achbita and another v G4S Secure Solutions [2017] IRLR 466 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Workplace ban on Muslim headscarves can be legitimate, suggests Advocate General

    Date:

    2 June 2016

    The Advocate General has said that it is not direct religious discrimination for an employer with a policy of religious and political neutrality to prevent a Muslim employee from wearing an Islamic headscarf.

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  Advocate General's opinion in Bougnaoui and another v Micropole SA [2017] IRLR 447 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Workplace ban on Muslim headscarves is discriminatory, suggests Advocate General

    Date:

    14 July 2016

    The Advocate General has suggested that an employer cannot have a blanket ban on religious dress that prevents a Muslim woman from wearing an Islamic headscarf when in contact with clients.

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  Amachree v Wandsworth Borough Council ET/2328606/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • No religious discrimination or unfair dismissal after housing officer told terminally ill woman to "put her faith in God"

    Date:

    7 December 2011

    An employment tribunal has found that a Christian housing officer who told a terminally ill service user that she should "put her faith in God" and sought publicity when disciplinary action was taken was fairly dismissed and not discriminated against because of his religion.

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  Anderson v Chesterfield High School ET/2415949/2012 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Commitment to public service can be philosophical belief under Equality Act 2010

    Date:

    26 June 2014

    This employment tribunal held that the belief in the importance of public service held by an individual who became the mayor of Liverpool is a "philosophical belief" under the Equality Act 2010.

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  Apelogun-Gabriels v London Borough of Lambeth [2006] ET/2301976/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest: religious discrimination

    Date:

    1 April 2007

    Tina McKevitt, solicitor and lecturer in law, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on religious discrimination.

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  Arya v London Borough of Waltham Forest ET/3200396/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Former teacher's anti-Semitic views not philosophical belief under Equality Act 2010

    Date:

    1 July 2013

    This employment tribunal found that the Equality Act 2010 does not protect a claimant who believes that "the Jewish religion's professed belief in Jews being 'God's chosen people' is at odds with a meritocratic and multicultural society".

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  Austin v Samuel Grant (North East) Ltd ET/2503956/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Heterosexual employee called "gay" because he does not like football wins harassment claim

    Date:

    2 August 2012

    In this tribunal decision, an employee who suffered workplace abuse successfully claimed sexual orientation and religion or belief harassment, despite being heterosexual and not declaring his religious beliefs.

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  Azmi v Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council [2007] IRLR 484 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Case of the week: Teaching assistant's appeal fails in veil dispute

    Date:

    17 April 2007

    This week's case of the week, provided by Eversheds, covers religious discrimination.

  • Azmi v Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council

    Date:

    2 April 2007

    In Azmi v Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council EAT/0009/07, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has dismissed an appeal against an employment tribunal's ruling that an employee who was dismissed for refusing to remove her veil while teaching had not been discriminated against on the grounds of religion or belief.