Le Monde 20.03.2013 France’s Court of Cassation overruled the dismissal of a Muslim woman from her workplace for wearing the niqab. Fatima Afif, a former employee of private day nursery in Chanteloup-les Vignes (Île-de-France), was refused from recommencing to work after a five-year long maternity leave when she announced her intention to continue to wear…
A Muslim convert sues her previous employer, Dunnes Stores, a major Irish supermarket chain, for unfair dismissal. The Latvian-born woman converted to Islam after having worked for Dunnes Stores. When she started wearing the headscarf subsequent to her conversion she was told by the local store manager that “she couldn’t come to work wearing the…
4July 2012 Samir Jamaluddin, an Indian born Muslim who had been working for British Airways as a senior first officer when he was arrested by counter terrorism police in 2007. The police eventually dropped the case against him in February 2008 due to lack evidence. However, the airline first suspended and then two years later…
August 11 2010 A Dutch court has ruled that the city council of Rotterdam was within its legal rights in dismissing academic Tariq Ramadan in August 2009. The prominent Islamic philosopher lost his job as city integration officer due to participation in a television program for a broadcast company financed by Iran. Ramadan, who was…
News coverage of Tariq Ramadan’s dismissal from the Rotterdam city council and Erasmus University continues this week, DutchNews reports from NRC and Volkskrant. Erasmus University in officials are angry with the decision. “’It is a politicial [sic] decision and we are shocked about it,’ economics professor Arjo Klamer said. Professors can only be sacked if…
