About suing for emotional distress

There is something that doesn't sit right with me about this article.
I've read the initial article I think months ago,
about a girl who sued a hairdresser where she applied for a job,
since she wasn't even given a chance to show her ability.
she was just turned down because she couldn't show her hair while working.
I'll put that initial article link later if I could find it.

While I found the salon owner reasoning is pretty sound,
given that the notion of veil must be unfamiliar for her,
let alone the notion of a hairdresser wearing veil while treating a customer's hair.
Yet, I also found that despite the novelty of such idea,
I think she still could have given her a chance to show her professional skill first
before really turning her down.

The problem is about the equality of the right to work professionally.

However, then in this new article the focus is then shifted to about the emotional distress of the girl having turned down by the salon.
And for that she is granted 4k pound sterling.

Somehow the court ruling doesn't seem fair and wise to me...

In the court the suing hairdresser won because

She (the salon owner) was not able to prove her contention that employing someone with a headscarf would have the negative impact on her business's stylistic integrity that she feared.

Thus, I think the proper solution would be to have some kind of legal base that ensure
for the future that every person, despite her headscarf, must be allowed the chance to
win the hairdresser job just based on their professional skill.

The part involving money to pay for the emotional distress part is the one that doesn't sound right to me.

It sounds....kinda greedy?

Emotional distress can happen.
It's just parts of human life in society.

How can you measure an amount of money to heal your heart wound from emotional distress?

Having the problem settled in court with an amount of money paid for you for your emotional distress, how would that heal your depression?

Isn't a fair apology from the person feels better?
A sincere admittance of apology with warm handshake and eye to eye contact that convey the empathy and understanding of your distress,
and then also your own act of forgiving that person.

Isn't that what heal heart wounds?

To me the court decision with the money grants somehow sounds like its going to add more social tension...

I really hope the aspiring hairdresser with veils will find her dream job.
I really hope that the salon owner will be able to pay the money and prosper in her salon business and might take a hairdresser with veils as an employee in the future for her awesome hairdressing skill.
And I hope the same for all other aspiring hairdressers in veils and other salon owners in the world...

And may peace fall upon the world...as Islam is rahmatan lil'alamin..