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March 22, 2007

Wiccan brings unfair dismissal case

by Feòrag

England: A Brighton teaching assistant has told an Employment Tribunal that she was sacked because of her neopagan religious beliefs. Sommer De La Rosa, a Wiccan, claims her employers feared she would brainwash schoolchildren, that other teachers shunned her because of her religion and told her not to wear a pentagram necklace.

Her former employers disagree and say she was sacked because of poor attendance record and inappropriate disclosures to schoolchildren.

Employee claims she was unfairly dismissed for being a witchWorkplace Law, 22nd March 2007.

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Posted in Church and State at 13:25. Last modified on March 22 2007 at 13:31.
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