(Courthouse News) In a consolidated case involving a drug store clerk and a day care center employee, a magistrate for the European Union’s high court held that employers can ban Islamic headscarves on neutrality grounds.
In a nonbinding legal opinion for the European Court of Justice, Advocate General Athanasios Rantos wrote Thursday that the drugstore chain Müller and day care provider WABE can ban its employees from wearing visible displays of their religious beliefs. The opinion was not immediately available in English.
The two cases were referred to the Luxembourg-based court from two German labor courts, the Hamburg Labor Court and the Federal Labor Court.
