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The Employment Appeal Tribunal has dismissed the appeal of an employee who was dismissed partly because of the way in which he promoted his spiritual beliefs at work and claimed that he was subjected to discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief.
The EAT followed case law that says that an employer may lawfully discipline employees for inappropriately manifesting their protected beliefs in the workplace.
The Claimant was dismissed, partly on the grounds of conduct, but also because he had brought spiritualist posters and DVD’s into the workplace. The Tribunal accepted that the Claimant’s beliefs (which included a belief in psychic and paranormal powers) were protected by the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003, but found that he was not dismissed on the grounds of those beliefs. They found that he was dismissed primarily for conduct and secondarily for the inappropriate manifestation of his protected beliefs.
The EAT dismissed the Claimant’s appeal against that decision and found that the tribunal had correctly appreciated the distinction between treatment on the ground of belief’s and treatment on the grounds of the manifestation of those beliefs.
