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UK Pensions – Could ethical veganism impact on future pension fund investments?

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By Lesley Harrold on January 29, 2020

UK Pensions – Could ethical veganism impact on future pension fund investments?

January 2020

In an employment tribunal preliminary hearing on 3 January 2020, Judge Robin Postle ruled that ethical veganism satisfies the tests required for it to be a philosophical belief, with the result that it was protected under the Equality Act 2010. For…

Posted in Europe, UK

Ethical Veganism is a Protected Characteristic

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By Amanda Sanders (UK) on January 13, 2020

An employment tribunal in the UK has held that ethical veganism is a protected characteristic under UK discrimination law.

In the UK an employee is protected from discrimination in the workplace under one of the nine protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010.  This includes protection in respect of religion, religious belief and…

Posted in Discrimination and harassment, Europe, UK

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