26.11.2015

Court of Human Rights rules of religious headscarves

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that an employee losing her job because she insisted on wearing a headscarf at work for religious reasons was not discriminated against because of her religion. 

In Ebrahimian v France, the European Court of Human Rights has held that a hospital worker whose contract was not renewed after she refused to remove a headscarf, worn for religious reasons, while at work, did not suffer a breach of her right to religious freedom under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The ECtHR held that the principle of secularism and the neutrality of public services justified the interference with the worker's right to manifest her religious beliefs.”