Preaching and Religious Discrimination

The EAT has handed down their judgement in Chondol v Liverpool City Council whereby they held that dismissing a member of staff for inappropriate teaching did not constitute religious discrimination. There has to be a clear distinction however between being dismissed for having such a belief or religion and in the alternative being dismissed for forcing ones beliefs onto others.

The EAT did however emphasise that the Tribunal will need to exercise great care to ensure that this was the real reason for dismissal as there would appear to be a very fine line between the two scenarios.

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