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In a judgement that can have far-reaching ramifications, a British employment tribunal panel has awarded 4,000 pounds to a Muslim teenage hairdresser as compensation for _injury to feelings’ after she was declined a job for wearing a headscarf. Dismissing the claim of a religious discrimination put by 19-year-old Bushra Noah, the tribunal upheld her complaint
A headscarf-wearing Muslim stylist as started a _34,000 employment battle with her pink-haired salon owner accusing her of “blatant” religious discrimination. Bushra Noah, 19, is claiming that amount in compensation after being turned down for a job at the Wedge salon, which specialises in “urban, edgy and funky” cuts. Owner Sarah Desrosiers, 32, said she
A Muslim woman has doubled her claim for damages in her pursuit to sue a salon owner for refusing her a hairdressing job because of her headscarf. Bushra Noah, 19, from Acton, west London, has reportedly claimed that Sarah Desrosiers, who runs the Wedge salon in King’s Cross, behaved in a “high-handed, malicious, insulting or