We have previously noted the judgment in Ms Z De Groen v Gan Menachem Hendon Ltd [2017] UKET 3347281/2016, in which Ms De Groen, a teacher at a private Orthodox Jewish nursery school that followed the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, was sacked because she was cohabiting with the man whom she later married. The Nursery appealed, with mixed results: in an interesting judgment, Swift J concluded that she had not been discriminated against on grounds of religion but that she had been discriminated against on grounds of sex.
May a faith-based nursery school sack a teacher for cohabitation? De Groen in the EAT
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