Bougnaoui and another v Micropole SA [2017] IRLR 447 ECJ
Reports relating to this case:
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Religious discrimination: Customer's reluctance to accept services of hijab-wearing employee not genuine and determining occupational requirement
- Date:
- 24 September 2017
In Bougnaoui and another v Micropole SA [2017] IRLR 447 ECJ, the ECJ held that an employer in France could not use the reluctance of a customer to deal with any worker wearing an Islamic headscarf to defend the dismissal of a Muslim worker because she wore the hijab.
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Direct religious discrimination: employer's wish to please customer not a genuine occupational requirement
- Date:
- 14 March 2017
The European Court of Justice has held that a direct religious discrimination claim in which an employee who wears an Islamic headscarf is dismissed to appease a customer cannot be defended on the basis of a "genuine and determining occupational requirement".
