02 October, 2008

Supermarkets sell alcohol?

A Saudi man who came to work in the UK is taking Tesco to an employment tribunal because - in his role as forklift driver - he hadn't realised the job would involve handling alcohol and so is claiming religious discrimination.

Let's hope that the employment tribunal kicks this one out before it hits the front door.


[edits: to remove the excessive use of the passive.]

2 comments:

nought.point.zero said...

My word...

I'm pretty confident he won't win, but you can never be too sure these days

--- said...

If Tesco didn't crew up on procedure, then they should be OK. And as such a large company, their HR should be fairly effective.


On the other hand, they might decide that they can't be bothered to contest it and just settle instead.