02 December 2011

£7,000 payout for Muslim woman who wore a headscarf to job interview

A GRIMSBY bakery – found to have discriminated against a headscarf-wearing Muslim woman on religious grounds – is asking top judges to block a similar case being brought by her husband.

Country Style Foods Limited was ordered to pay Latvian-born Anastasija Bouzir about £7,000 in compensation following an employment tribunal's ruling that it failed to offer her a job at its bread factory in Wickham Road, after she wore a Muslim headscarf to her interview. [This is Grimsby] Read more [via National Secular Society]