Mary Onuoha wins case against Croydon university hospital’s uniform policy that prohibited wearing necklaces
A nurse who claimed she was victimised for wearing a necklace with a Christian cross at work has won a case for unfair dismissal.
… According to the tribunal’s ruling, the wearing of jewellery, including necklaces, was “rife” among the trust’s workforce and was “widely tolerated” by management.
The trust allowed employees to wear other items of religious apparel such as headscarves, turbans and kalava bracelets. “There was no proper explanation as to why those items were permitted but a cross-necklace was not,” the ruling said.
The trust had “directly discriminated against and harassed” Onuoha, and her “dismissal had been both discriminatory and unfair”.
