(Dutch News) Dutch public transport companies have instructed staff to ignore a new policy that refuses entry to Muslim women who wear the face-covering burka, the AD reports.
The new legislation, which will come into effect on August 1, will not be implemented because police are not treating it as a high-priority measure, the public transport organisation says.
“That means the law is unworkable,” spokesman Pedro Peters told the AD. “The police told us they will not attend incidents at a train, bus or metro within half an hour so that means we would be stuck. The service can’t be interrupted.”
Staff have received instructions not to refuse women wearing burkas and veils because they are not the ones that have to implement the law, the transport companies say.
