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"I am glad that the Commissioner has confirmed the principle of non-discrimination on the grounds of religion. I am concerned over the practice in some Member States. As she may be aware, in the United Kingdom there is a clergyman – the Reverend Raymond Owen – who has been refused permission to go to an industrial tribunal to resolve outstanding issues relating to his dismissal by the church authorities. This would not have been the case in various other Member States, or had he been a religious minister from a non-Christian organisation.
This case seems to exemplify the discrimination that exists against Christian ministers of religion in certain Member States of the Union when they are in dispute with their ecclesiastical authorities. United Kingdom law fails to incorporate properly the Council Directive of 14 October 1991 – most notably Article 8 which notes that Member States are allowed to exclude certain limited cases of employment. However, the UK Employment Rights Act of 1996, in part 13, chapter 1, specifies particular types of employment that are excluded from the Act but makes no reference to the clergy, therefore implying that the clergy is covered by legislation, which is not in fact the case.
I hope the Commissioner will agree to look in detail at this case and receive the Reverend Owen and representatives from his trade union so we can make a formal complaint."@en1
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