{"id":24312,"date":"2017-03-14T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T09:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=24312"},"modified":"2017-03-14T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T09:55:19","slug":"in-headscarf-ruling-eu-court-allows-religious-symbol-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/in-headscarf-ruling-eu-court-allows-religious-symbol-bans.html","title":{"rendered":"In headscarf ruling, EU court allows religious symbol bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">In headscarf ruling, EU court allows religious symbol bans<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>In headscarf ruling, EU court allows religious symbol bans:- <\/strong>Employers may bar staff from wearing visible religious symbols, the European Union&#39;s top court ruled on Tuesday in its first decision on the issue of women wearing Islamic headscarves at work.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">On the eve of a Dutch election in which Muslim immigration has been a key issue and a bellwether for attitudes to migration and refugee policies across Europe, the Court of Justice (ECJ) gave a joined judgment in the cases of two women, in France and Belgium, who were dismissed for refusing to remove headscarves.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;An internal rule of an undertaking which prohibits the visible wearing of any political, philosophical or religious sign does not constitute direct discrimination,&quot; the Court said in a statement.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;However, in the absence of such a rule, the willingness of an employer to take account of the wishes of a customer no longer to have the employer&#39;s services provided by a worker wearing an Islamic headscarf cannot be considered an occupational requirement that could rule out discrimination.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-eu-court-headscarf-idUSKBN16L0UD<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/in-headscarf-ruling-eu-court-allows-religious-symbol-bans.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In headscarf ruling, EU court allows religious symbol bans In headscarf ruling, EU court allows religious symbol bans:- Employers may bar staff from wearing visible religious symbols, the European Union&#39;s top court ruled on Tuesday in its first decision on the issue of women wearing Islamic headscarves at work. 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