A 24-year-old nursery teacher lost her job after parents at Gan Menachem nursery in Hendon, London, complained about her living with her boyfriend Oz Waknin without marriage.
Parents reacted very badly and even told that they would pull their child out of the nursery the following year if they were to be taught by her. During the hour-long dressing down, Head Teacher Miriam Lieberman and nursery manager Dina Toron suggested that a solution could be to lie and just deny she was living with him.
Two days later, de Groen asked for an apology for the way she had been treated, she was disciplined and fired. The regarding incidents happened because of the lifestyle of the teacher.
Ms de Groen married to Mr. Waknin successfully sued the nursery for direct and indirect religious discrimination, direct sex discrimination, and harassment.
In its ruling, the Watford Employment Tribunal panel said: ‘The effect was undoubtedly humiliating, degrading and offensive’
Ms de Groen was brought up in an Orthodox household until she was 16 when she moved to Israel. She returned three years later having rejected Orthodoxy but continuing to adhere to her Jewish beliefs. The young teacher worked at the nursery for four years, rising to the position of team leader.
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