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Orthodox nursery appeals ruling that it discriminated against teacher it fired for living with boyfriend

Zelda de Groen won a claim of religious and sexual discrimination but nursery's lawyers claim the ruling was wrong

November 2, 2018 16:16
Fleetbank House, where the hearing took place
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An Orthodox nursery is appealing a ruling that found it discriminated against a Jewish teacher it fired after learning she was living with her boyfriend.

Zelda de Groen, 25, won a claim of religious and sexual discrimination against Gan Menachem in Hendon at an employment tribunal last year, after losing her job in 2016.

But at a one-day hearing at the Employment Appeal Tribunal in London on Thursday, lawyers for the nursery argued that the original decision was wrong.

Watford Employment Tribunal accepted that many Orthodox Jews regarded cohabitation before marriage as wrong.