Not quite “religion”, but…

In Mrs C Fairbanks v Change Grow Live [2024] UKET 2409700/2023, Mrs Fairbanks had been employed by Change Grow Live (CGL), a charity, as a recovery worker based in Fleetwood from October 2022 until she was dismissed in July 2023. She had been a local councillor for the UK Independence Party between about 2017 and 2019, and at the job interview, she had told the charity that she had been a councillor but had not told them which party she had represented.

She believed that difficulties had arisen with her employer from about February 2023 when a colleague told her manager that she had been a UKIP councillor. She claimed that she had been subsequently bullied and harassed by CGL about her membership of UKIP, and she was ultimately dismissed over social media posts on Twitter/X accounts – one of which, she claimed, did not belong to her [13 & 14]. Her principal complaint was that she had been treated to her detriment and ultimately dismissed because of her membership of UKIP [32]. Continue reading →