{"id":7348,"date":"2021-07-21T21:11:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T20:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2021-09-25T21:18:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T20:18:13","slug":"eus-top-court-employers-may-ban-islamic-headscarves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2021\/07\/21\/eus-top-court-employers-may-ban-islamic-headscarves\/","title":{"rendered":"EU\u2019s Top Court: Employers May Ban Islamic Headscarves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2021\/07\/21\/eus-top-court-employers-may-ban-islamic-headscarves\/eu-headscarf-ban\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7349\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7349\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/eu-headscarf-ban.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/eu-headscarf-ban.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/eu-headscarf-ban-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU\u2019s highest court, has ruled that private sector employers within the 27-member bloc are legally entitled to prohibit their employees from wearing Islamic headscarves at the workplace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>EU&#8217;s Top Court: Employers May Ban Islamic Headscarves<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/17582\/eu-employers-ban-islamic-headscarves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | July 21, 2021<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU\u2019s highest court, has ruled that private sector employers within the 27-member bloc are legally entitled to prohibit their employees from wearing Islamic headscarves at the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>The decision <a href=\"https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2021-07\/cp210128en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">states<\/a> that corporate bans on religious or political symbols are legitimate if employers wish to \u201cpresent a neutral image towards customers\u201d or to \u201cprevent social disputes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judgment is consistent with previous determinations by the Luxembourg-based court, informally known as the European Court of Justice (ECJ), that bans on religious symbols at the workplace are not inherently discriminatory \u2014 provided they apply equally to all religions.<\/p>\n<p>The significance of the ECJ\u2019s decision on the headscarf \u2014 arguably the most visible symbol of political Islam in Europe \u2014 cannot be overstated: by striking a balance between religious liberty and entrepreneurial freedom, the court has effectively blocked a back-door effort to enshrine Sharia law in European labor law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/17582\/eu-employers-ban-islamic-headscarves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU\u2019s highest court, has ruled that private sector employers within the 27-member bloc are legally entitled to prohibit their employees from wearing Islamic headscarves at the workplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48],"tags":[46,179,181,134],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam-in-europe","tag-european-multiculturalism","tag-germany","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-sharia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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