September 17, 2007
Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6998380.stm
A Heathrow Airport worker has been dismissed for wearing a nose stud.
Amrit Lalji, 40, of Stanmore, north-west London, who worked for caterers Eurest, said she wore the tiny piercing as a mark of her Hindu faith.
She had worn the stud at work for more than a year until a manager told her to remove it. She refused and was suspended, and subsequently sacked.
Eurest said for health and safety reasons jewellery and piercings were not allowed at work.