(Christian Today) A Christian nurse is suing a London NHS trust for unfair dismissal over claims she was forced out of her job for wearing a cross necklace.
Mary Onuoha, a theatre practitioner for 18 years, will tell an employment tribunal today that she had worn her cross necklace at Croydon University Hospital for many years without incident until 2015, when she says she was warned of “escalation” by bosses unless she removed or concealed it while on duty.
The devout Christian, who wears the necklace as a symbol of her faith, says this was followed by a campaign of harassment in which she was “treated like a criminal”, despite other religious staff members being allowed to wear jewellery, saris, turbans and hijabs.