On 27 April 1992 Ms. Stedman gave the manager one month's notice that she was no longer prepared to work on Sunday.
On 7 May 1992 she was told that her contract of employment was to be amended to include Sunday as a normal working day, on a rota basis, with no enhanced rate of pay.
She also complained of breach of her right to a family life under Art.8, because she was bound to work some Sundays, and her husband did not.
The European Commission of Human Rights (i.e. the case was not admitted to the actual court) stated by a majority that Ms Stedman resigned because she did not want to work.
Even if she had been employed by the state and dismissed in similar circumstances, there would not have even been an interference with her Art 9(1) rights.