By Malcolm Sargeant
This available, new textbook offers an outline of the swiftly transforming into region of discrimination legislation. It covers all the conventional parts of discrimination legislation, together with discrimination in the context of employment, intercourse and race discrimination. The booklet additionally contains new parts due to the equivalent therapy in Employment Directive equivalent to age and spiritual discrimination. Discrimination legislations is edited by means of Malcolm Sargeant, knowledgeable within the zone of employment and discrimination legislation.
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The judgment would mean that any Muslim, who took their religious duties seriously, could never be employed on a full-time contract as a teacher. This is an old case and one must doubt whether the same decision would be reached today, even without the new Regulations (see Chapter 8). It does, however, illustrate how it is possible to penalise someone for carrying out the activities and ritual connected to their religious beliefs. The 2001 census did ask a question about religion. It was a voluntary question and over 4 million people did not answer it.
113, 115, 122, 123 (3) ..................................................................................... 119 (5) ............................................................................................. 115 (c) ......................................................................................... 127 (4) ............................................................................................. 110 European Communities Act 1972 ...........................................................
In this case it still meant rejecting the claim as its acceptance would give the Muslim community ‘preferential treatment’. The court held that Article 9(2) of the Convention did not give an employee the right to absent him- or herself from work in breach of the contract of employment. Lord Scarman dissented, stating that the issue began, but did not end, with the law of contract. The judgment would mean that any Muslim, who took their religious duties seriously, could never be employed on a full-time contract as a teacher.