If you ever doubted it was the case, here’s the final proof that in the UK, Health and Safety legislation trumps everything. Tamanna Begum, a Sunni Muslim nursery school ‘teacher’ in Essex, has just lost an employment appeal tribunal. She wanted to wear a full head to toe Darth Vader style jilbab to work.
Her employer preferred that she would not. The tribunal decided that the employer was within his rights as the jilbab was ‘reasonably regarded as a tripping hazard.’ Not that it was scary for the kids, or embodied sexism, or was alien to our way of life – simply that the stupid woman might trip over it. The only thing that matters.
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