In today’s ‘The week that was…’ – BA Christian employee wins case to wear religious symbol at work, wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor may play for the men’s second XI county cricket this summer, People Management mentions LSE’s ‘Balancing work and being a dad’ course.
A British Airways employee who took her case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after BA stopped her wearing her gold cross visibly has won the appeal. The court said BA had not struck a fair balance between Ms Nadia Eweida’s religious beliefs and the company’s wish to “project a certain corporate image”. However, the other three cases, all involving Christians asking for protection of their religious rights, were struck out by the court.
The possiblity of the England wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor playing in men’s second XI county cricket this summer is emerging, it has been revealed. Taylor has an informal agreement with the coaching staff at Sussex that if their second team needs a wicketkeeper at short notice this year, she will be selected to play. If Taylor, widely regarded as one of the best female cricketers in history, does play for the men’s team, it will be a groundbreaking step for women’s sport and her participation could open up discussion about mixed gender sports teams.
The People Management magazine made a special mention of LSE as an exemplar of good practice for providing support to working dads. The course at LSE, entitled ‘Balacing work and being a dad’, was set up in collaboration with Working Families. It provides guidance for male staff about to become dads who want to do their share of parenting without damaging their career. Imran Iqbal, group manager of the information systems and innovation and management science groups at LSE, enrolled on the course before the birth of his eldest: “There was no one I knew within my working environment who was a new dad, so it really helped me to talk to people who had recently gone through what I was about to go through.”
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