Religious discrimination: Customer's reluctance to accept services of hijab-wearing employee not genuine and determining occupational requirement

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  Bougnaoui and another v Micropole SA [2017] IRLR 447 ECJ (1 other report)

  • 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".