Tamaki College - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 20 Mar 2016 18:53:54 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Tamaki College - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Atheist teacher loses employment case against Akld school https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/03/22/atheist-teacher-loses-employment-case-akld-school/ Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:52:43 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=81379 An atheist teacher who claimed he was fired for refusing to pray at school events has failed in his latest legal bid. Christopher Scott Roy, a former head of the art department at Auckland's Tamaki College, took the school to the Employment Court. This was over a claim he was constructively dismissed because he is an Read more

Atheist teacher loses employment case against Akld school... Read more]]> An atheist teacher who claimed he was fired for refusing to pray at school events has failed in his latest legal bid.

Christopher Scott Roy, a former head of the art department at Auckland's Tamaki College, took the school to the Employment Court.

This was over a claim he was constructively dismissed because he is an atheist.

His dispute with Tamaki College related to several incidents, including his refusal to attend powhiri because they were "Christian-based events".

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