![]() ![]() Let’s be clear: they could now be afforded rights under law specifically formulated to protect religion and belief. But I wonder if this ruling is quite so useful to those who look to science and rationality as guides to their lives as it might on the surface appear. Nicholson was keen to say that “belief in man-made climate change is not a new religion, it is a philosophical belief that reflects my moral and ethical values and is underlined by the overwhelming scientific evidence”. is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations”. Mr Justice Burton has now given him the go ahead to take Grainger to an industrial tribunal on these grounds, ruling that “a belief in man-made climate change. ![]() Tim Nicholson, a former executive with the property firm Grainger, claimed that he was made redundant last year because of his strong environmental concerns. ![]() A judge has just ruled that green beliefs should be safeguarded under employment law designed to protect religious and philosophical beliefs in the workplace. ![]()
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