'Legal precedent' | Worker sacked over LGBT+ Facebook posts wins right to new tribunal

Worker sacked over LGBT+ Facebook posts wins right to new tribunal

A teaching assistant who was sacked over her beliefs on LGBT+ education will be given the chance of a new employment tribunal, after a previous ruling had upheld her dismissal.

Kristie Higgs was sacked from Farmor’s School in Gloucestershire in 2019 for sharing two Facebook posts that raised concerns about how transgender and compulsory sex education was to be taught at her son’s Church of England (CofE) primary school.

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