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- Date:
- 11 May 2009
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Chondol v Liverpool City Council EAT/0298/08, the EAT held that the employment tribunal was correct to draw a distinction between the employee's religious beliefs on the one hand and inappropriate promotion of those beliefs on the other. Since the employer would have reacted in the same way irrespective of the view (religious or otherwise) that was being promoted, the employee had not been treated less favourably on grounds of his religion or belief.
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- Date:
- 23 February 2009
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In London Borough of Islington v Ladele EAT/0453/08, the EAT overturned the employment tribunal decision that a Christian registrar who was disciplined for refusing to undertake civil partnership duties was subjected to religious discrimination.
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- Date:
- 12 January 2009
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Eweida v British Airways plc EAT/0123/08, the EAT held that a uniform policy that prohibited visible items of jewellery, unless worn in pursuance of a mandatory scriptural requirement, did not indirectly discriminate against a Christian employee who wished to display a cross over her uniform.
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- Date:
- 15 December 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Saini v All Saints Haque Centre and others EAT/0227/08, the EAT held that, where a tribunal found on the facts that the employer had mistreated an employee in order to target his colleague on the grounds of the latter's religion, the tribunal erred in finding that the mistreatment was not unlawful because it was not based on the employee's own religion.
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- Date:
- 1 April 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
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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- Date:
- 20 November 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers religion or belief discrimination.
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- Date:
- 29 October 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Harris v NKL Automotive Ltd and Matrix Consultancy UK Ltd EAT 0134/07, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld an employment tribunal's finding that a requirement to have tidy hair did not indirectly discriminate against a Rastafarian who wore his hair in dreadlocks.
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- Date:
- 2 April 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
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.
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- Date:
- 4 September 2006
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Mohmed v West Coast Trains Ltd EAT/0682/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has given the first appellate decision on religious discrimination.
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- Type:
- FAQs