Muslim ’stylist’ wins £4,000 payout
The owner of a hair salon has been ordered to pay £4,000 compensation to a Muslim stylist who was turned down for a job because she wears a headscarf.
Bushra Noah accused Sarah Desrosiers of religious discrimination when she failed to offer her a job at her Wedge salon in King’s Cross, central London.
An employment tribunal panel dismissed the 19-year-old’s claim but upheld her complaint of indirect discrimination.
Ms Desrosiers said she needed stylists to showcase alternative hairstyles.
During the hearing Ms Noah, who lives in Acton, west London, told the tribunal that she was “devastated” that she was not offered the job of assistant stylist “due to my headscarf”.
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Ms Desrosiers, 32, told the panel that Ms Noah lived too far away, but was persuaded to give her an interview in May last year.
When the applicant arrived for the interview she claimed the Canadian salon owner was clearly shocked by the fact she wore a headscarf.
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Meanwhile, in the Islamic Republic of Iran:
Iranian police “questioning women and men [about] where they bought their clothes or had their hair done, then targeting the shops”
Iranian Fashion Police Update. “Iran police shut clothes shops, hairdressers,” from theAssociated Press, June 16:
Police closed 32 clothes shops and hairdressers and stopped cars and pedestrians in the street in an intensified crackdown on women who do not abide by Iran’s strict Islamic dress code and on men who take up fashions seen as too Western, Iranian media reported Monday.
| “I never in a million years dreamt that somebody would be completely against the display of hair and be in this industry” Sarah Desrosiers
* From the beginning: UK: Hairdresser faces ruin as Muslim woman increases claim for compensation* Sharp like a razor: “Hairdresser is sued for refusing a job to woman in a headscarf” |
Back to Bushra:
Ms Desrosiers told the tribunal she was surprised it had not been mentioned earlier and expected her staff to reflect the “funky, urban” image of her salon.
The panel found that Ms Noah had been badly upset by the 15-minute interview .
She was awarded £4,000 damages for “injury to feelings”.
In its judgment, the panel stated: “We were satisfied by the respondent’s evidence that the claimant was not treated less favourably than the respondent would have treated a woman who, whether Muslim or not, for a reason other than religious belief wears a hair covering at all times when at work.”
It added: “There was no specific evidence before us as to what would (for sure) have been the actual impact of the claimant working in her salon with her head covered at all times.”
Speaking after the ruling the salon owner said: “I never in a million years dreamt that somebody would be completely against the display of hair and be in this industry. I don’t feel I deserve it.”
Ms Noah refused to comment on the matter.
* The irony is that it coincided with this:
Iranian police “questioning women and men [about] where they bought their clothes or had their hair done, then targeting the shops”
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It simply goes to prove that there is no percentage anymore owning a business or rental property in these growing “multicultural” areas.
You will see millions abandon otherwise prospective opportunities in the future, leading to an even further decline in services, employment opportunities and viable housing.
Well at least not the standards we’ve become accustomed to, but should be quite satisfactory for a Sudanese goat herder living on a $28K welfare subsidy.
The decline of the west is well underway.
You see it – the decline of the West. Multiculturalism is the soporific drug that blinds the West.
IMO, the United Kaliphate is no longer a Western nation. No balls, no brains, no future.
Now I truly believe the UK is finished. How can such a ludicrous case ever have come to court? Of course you cannot be a hairdresser if you cover your own hair – commonsense would tell you that. But in the UK, commonsense has flown out of the window as multiculturalism has flown in.
I feel so sorry for the poor salon owner, whose life has been disrupted by these Islamothugs and their mates (no doubt some inhuman rights gravy-train lawyers) behind this case.
Who would take the risk and open a hair salon now, when you can be targetted by Muslims at any time?
I agree Cassandra. After reading the result I about wiped my hands of Britain and their Dhimmitude. Where are the voices crying foul?
This decision does NOT represent the view point of the majority in the UK. This ruling can be reversed,