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Dismissal for "cohabitation outside marriage" is not religious discrimination, rules EAT

Gan Menachem Hendon Ltd v de Groen [2019] IRLR 410 EAT

religion or belief discrimination | direct discrimination | associative discrimination

In Gan Menachem Hendon Ltd v De Groen, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that a claim of direct religious discrimination cannot be sustained simply on the basis that an employer acted in the way it did because of its own religious beliefs.