(Brussels Times) On Monday, the Actiris unemployment office suspended a job offer from an elementary school in the Brussels municipality of Etterbeek that stated that “wearing a headscarf is forbidden.”
The Sainte-Geneviève Catholic elementary school posted a job offer, looking for someone who can clean and supervise children.
Actiris suspended the job posting while it conducts a legal analysis, and it will contact the school to reformulate the offer, according to reports by La Dernière Heure and La Libre, which have since been confirmed by Actiris spokesperson Romain Adam.
“The wording is discriminatory in the sense that it essentially targets the wearing of headscarves,” he told the Belga news agency.
