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Case Watch: Discrimination Dressed up as Neutrality in European Headscarf Bans

15 July 2016

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"The Court of Justice of the European Union has been asked to interpret this law in two cases, each about a Muslim woman dismissed by a private sector employer because she wore a religious headscarf at work. In the first cases to reach the Court of Justice on the question of religious discrimination, national courts in Belgium and France have asked whether the dismissals were direct discrimination or whether exceptions to Directive 2000/78 allow such dismissals. In our legal briefing on the issue, we argue that the Court should rule that targeting clothing because it is religious is direct discrimination not allowed by EU law."

See the full article: Case Watch: Discrimination Dressed up as Neutrality in European Headscarf Bans (OSF, link)

See also: Religious discrimination in the workplace: which approach should the CJEU follow? (EU Law Analysis, link)

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