Picture by Daniele Febei. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). Some rights reserved. The European Court’s ruling of March 14 in the case of Samira Achbita’s dismissal by G4S because she wanted to wear the headscarf to work stated that:
“The prohibition on wearing an Islamic headscarf, which arises from an internal rule of a private undertaking prohibiting the visible wearing of any political, philosophical or religious sign in the workplace, does not constitute direct discrimination based on religion or belief within the meaning of that directive.”
Simply put, if a company prohibits religious signs from all religions, then the company is not guilty of direct discrimination.
