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By Emma Cross in Discrimination on Thursday, February 4, 2010
Under the current sexual orientation regulations, religious organisations can restrict employment “for the purposes of an organised religion” to those of a particular sexuality (usually heterosexual) to comply with religious doctrine or to avoid conflicting with the strongly held religious... read more
By Rita Nissiphorou in Discrimination on Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The employment appeal tribunal (EAT) has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that an individual's belief in man-made climate change and the existence of a moral duty to live in a way that mitigates or avoids it, was capable of being a "philosophical belief" for the purposes of... read more
The much anticipated Equality Bill was published yesterday. The Bill is intended to combine all of the existing legislation on discrimination into one single statute and creates a single public sector equality duty, which is extended to age, religion or belief and sexual... read more
By Fiona Hamor in Discrimination on Thursday, April 2, 2009
An environmental policy officer of a giant property company will be able to argue that he was unfairly dismissed because of his “philosophical belief in climate change” following a decision by an Employment Tribunal. Under the Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations 2003, it is... read more
