I don’t want anyone to be forced to wear one, but I also don’t see why wearing one to work is a bad thing, if that’s what you want to wear..
OP, please share a summary or full text. Paywalled articles are useless.
Freedom to wear what you want should be every citizens’ right! This is not freedom, this is oppression!
BRUSSELS, Oct 13 (Reuters) – EU companies can ban headscarfs as long as it is a general prohibition that does not discriminate against employees, Europe’s top court said on Thursday, the latest ruling on an issue that has divided Europe for years.
The case concerned a Muslim woman who was told she could not wear a headscarf when she applied to do a six-week work traineeship at a Belgian company.
The firm said it has a neutrality rule, meaning no head covering is allowed on its premises, whether a cap, beanie or scarf. The woman took her grievance to a Belgian court, which subsequently sought advice from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
The Luxembourg-based CJEU said there should not be any direct discrimination in such a ban.
“The internal rule of an undertaking prohibiting the visible wearing of religious, philosophical or spiritual signs does not constitute direct discrimination if it is applied to all workers in a general and undifferentiated way,” judges said.
The CJEU last year said that EU companies could ban employees from wearing a headscarf under certain conditions, if they needed to do so to project an image of neutrality to customers.
In Germany, headscarf bans for women at work have been contentious for years, mostly with regard to aspiring teachers at state schools and trainee judges.
France, home to Europe’s largest Muslim minority, prohibited the wearing of Islamic headscarfs in state schools in 2004.
Shouldn’t there be a ban on wearing miniature medieval torture devices around your neck as well?
“The case concerned a Muslim woman who was told she could not wear a headscarf when she applied to do a six-week work traineeship at a Belgian company. The firm said it has a neutrality rule, meaning no head covering is allowed on its premises, whether a cap, beanie or scarf. The woman took her grievance to a Belgian court, which subsequently sought advice from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).”
This case was never about a headscarf ban/religious thing but about a general headwear ban. The title is misleading.
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I don’t generally care what people wear. I do think it’s a good message to send that we don’t live in theocracies in Europe and that any religion doesn’t supersede the law.
Religious garbage only serves to divide humans further anyway.
Ancient Persian torture/death devices (crucifixes) around our necks, rags or silly tiny caps on our heads and covering ourselves up in the heat of summer? Well, it’s all just dumb.
Their husbands tell them to wear them their workplace tells them not too
Shouldn’t even be a question tbh.
Private company, private rules.
If in my house I say no shoes and no headscarf,I don’t expect a government to come and tell me that I can’t.
If I’m offered a job in a company that requires a suit and a tie and I don’t want that, I decline and look for something else.
What’s the problem?
Good, religion and its clothes have no place in the workplace.
I think this is justified. As long as it’s a general rule that doesn’t discriminate against anyone, like it’s the case in this article. Dresscodes are not a new thing. I can’t show up to work in dirty working clothes if I‘m a waiter and I can’t show up in a bathing suite to an office job or a construction site. If I don’t like that, I’m free to apply elsewhere
Expectations: Muslim woman get rid of their headscarves.
Reality: Muslim woman forced to leave their jobs.
Makes you wonder why they’ve such a hard time being part of the society here, doesn’t it?
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I don’t want anyone to be forced to wear one, but I also don’t see why wearing one to work is a bad thing, if that’s what you want to wear..
OP, please share a summary or full text. Paywalled articles are useless.
Freedom to wear what you want should be every citizens’ right! This is not freedom, this is oppression!
BRUSSELS, Oct 13 (Reuters) – EU companies can ban headscarfs as long as it is a general prohibition that does not discriminate against employees, Europe’s top court said on Thursday, the latest ruling on an issue that has divided Europe for years.
The case concerned a Muslim woman who was told she could not wear a headscarf when she applied to do a six-week work traineeship at a Belgian company.
The firm said it has a neutrality rule, meaning no head covering is allowed on its premises, whether a cap, beanie or scarf. The woman took her grievance to a Belgian court, which subsequently sought advice from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
The Luxembourg-based CJEU said there should not be any direct discrimination in such a ban.
“The internal rule of an undertaking prohibiting the visible wearing of religious, philosophical or spiritual signs does not constitute direct discrimination if it is applied to all workers in a general and undifferentiated way,” judges said.
The CJEU last year said that EU companies could ban employees from wearing a headscarf under certain conditions, if they needed to do so to project an image of neutrality to customers.
In Germany, headscarf bans for women at work have been contentious for years, mostly with regard to aspiring teachers at state schools and trainee judges.
France, home to Europe’s largest Muslim minority, prohibited the wearing of Islamic headscarfs in state schools in 2004.
Shouldn’t there be a ban on wearing miniature medieval torture devices around your neck as well?
“The case concerned a Muslim woman who was told she could not wear a headscarf when she applied to do a six-week work traineeship at a Belgian company. The firm said it has a neutrality rule, meaning no head covering is allowed on its premises, whether a cap, beanie or scarf. The woman took her grievance to a Belgian court, which subsequently sought advice from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).”
This case was never about a headscarf ban/religious thing but about a general headwear ban. The title is misleading.
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I don’t generally care what people wear. I do think it’s a good message to send that we don’t live in theocracies in Europe and that any religion doesn’t supersede the law.
Religious garbage only serves to divide humans further anyway.
Ancient Persian torture/death devices (crucifixes) around our necks, rags or silly tiny caps on our heads and covering ourselves up in the heat of summer? Well, it’s all just dumb.
Their husbands tell them to wear them their workplace tells them not too
Shouldn’t even be a question tbh.
Private company, private rules.
If in my house I say no shoes and no headscarf,I don’t expect a government to come and tell me that I can’t.
If I’m offered a job in a company that requires a suit and a tie and I don’t want that, I decline and look for something else.
What’s the problem?
Good, religion and its clothes have no place in the workplace.
I think this is justified. As long as it’s a general rule that doesn’t discriminate against anyone, like it’s the case in this article. Dresscodes are not a new thing. I can’t show up to work in dirty working clothes if I‘m a waiter and I can’t show up in a bathing suite to an office job or a construction site. If I don’t like that, I’m free to apply elsewhere
Expectations: Muslim woman get rid of their headscarves.
Reality: Muslim woman forced to leave their jobs.
Makes you wonder why they’ve such a hard time being part of the society here, doesn’t it?