(Courthouse News) The EU’s top court ruled on Thursday that companies can ban their employees from wearing headscarves and other religious symbols while on the clock.
“An internal rule of an undertaking, prohibiting workers from wearing any visible sign of political, philosophical or religious beliefs in the workplace, does not constitute, with regard to workers who observe certain clothing rules based on religious precepts, direct discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief,” the Luxembourg-based court wrote.
The two cases were referred to the Luxembourg-based court from the Hamburg Labor Court and the Federal Labor Court, both in Germany, which is home to more than 5 million Muslims, making them the largest religious minority in the country.
