(Daily Sabah) The Versailles Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday against a company for firing an employee in 2008 for refusing to take her headscarf off, saying she was let go without a just cause.
The court said Asma Bougnaoui had the right to wear the Islamic veil at work, and there weren’t any regulations or laws that forbade her from doing so in the private sector.
Despite the decision coming 10 years late, the court also annulled the dismissal, and ordered the computer consulting company Micropole to pay her 23,000 euros in back-pay and damages.
Bougnaoui had been working as an IT consultant at Micropole’s office in Levallois, Hauts-de-Seine, for a year when she was fired.
