Religious Discrimination and workplace clothing policies: consistency, comparators, and some persisting confusion?

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Laurene Veale has written an analysis of a recent judgment of the European Court of Justice on religion and protected belief discrimination for the Discrimination Law Association.

She argues that the judgment may come as a disappointment to those who see European case law as having been too permissive of employers excluding women from the workplace because they wear a headscarf.

Laurene explores the question of appropriate comparators and the difference between direct and indirect discrimination in the EU case law.

The article can be found here. The full journal is available to DLA members on their website: discriminationlaw.org.uk