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15/01/2013
BA Employee Wins Discrimination Ruling
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that British Airways discriminated against and employee of their Christian beliefs.
Nadia Eweida took her case to the European Court of Human Rights after BA made her stop wearing a cross visibly.
Judges ruled her rights had been violated under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Judges also ruled that the rights of three other Christians had not been violated by their employers.
They brought cases against the government for not protecting their rights but ministers, who contested the claims, argued that the rights of the employees were only protected in private.
The other cases involved nurse Shirley Chaplin, 57, whose employer also stopped her wearing necklaces with a cross, Gary McFarlane, 51 - a marriage counsellor fired after saying he might object to giving sex therapy advice to gay couples - and registrar Lillian Ladele, who was disciplined after she refused to conduct same-sex civil partnership ceremonies.
All four lost separate employment tribunals relating to their beliefs and made individual applications to the court, but their cases are being heard together.
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Nadia Eweida took her case to the European Court of Human Rights after BA made her stop wearing a cross visibly.
Judges ruled her rights had been violated under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Judges also ruled that the rights of three other Christians had not been violated by their employers.
They brought cases against the government for not protecting their rights but ministers, who contested the claims, argued that the rights of the employees were only protected in private.
The other cases involved nurse Shirley Chaplin, 57, whose employer also stopped her wearing necklaces with a cross, Gary McFarlane, 51 - a marriage counsellor fired after saying he might object to giving sex therapy advice to gay couples - and registrar Lillian Ladele, who was disciplined after she refused to conduct same-sex civil partnership ceremonies.
All four lost separate employment tribunals relating to their beliefs and made individual applications to the court, but their cases are being heard together.
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