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Equality laws open to abuse following 'environmental beliefs' case
A judge's decision that eco-friendly views were philosophical beliefs and should be protected under equality law could leave the legislation wide open for abuse by employees, according to HR professionals and campaigners.
At a pre-hearing review this week, Tim Nicholson, head of sustainability at the property firm Grainger, claimed his environmental beliefs were the reason behind a decision to make him redundant from the firm in 2008.
The judge found in Nicholson's favour, and said environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.
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