British Christian wins right to wear cross
at work
Tuesday January 15, 2013 10:38:19 PM,
IANS
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London:
A Christian woman working as an airline check-in clerk in Britain
has won the right to wear a cross at work, in a landmark case that
may define religious freedom in Britain and across Europe, a media
report said Tuesday.
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that
Britain failed to protect Coptic Christian Nadia Eweida's freedom
to manifest her faith in the workplace, the Telegraph reported.
The court, however, rejected a similar legal challenge from a
nurse Shirley Chaplin, ruling that the hospital where she worked
should be able to refuse permission to wear a cross on "health and
safety" grounds.
Both women lost employment tribunal cases in Britain under their
employers' uniform policy.
The British government said this was not a breach of their human
rights and wearing a cross was not an essential tenet of
Christianity.
But the European court said that manifesting religion was a
"fundamental right".
The court also rejected parallel challenges brought by two other
Christians who lost their jobs for taking a stand on a matter of
conscience.
Gary McFarlane, a counsellor for the charity Relate, and Lillian
Ladele, a marriage registrar, both resisted performing tasks at
work that they believed would amount to approving homosexuality.
Eweida, a British Airways employee from Twickenham is south-west
London, was sent home in 2006 after refusing to remove a necklace
with a cross or hide it from view, the daily said.
British Airways later changed its uniform policy to allow all
symbols of faith, including crosses.
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