It is the second trial very covered by the media (after that of Lufthansa's pilots, see our article No. 061095) as part of the law "on equal treatment" which came into effect in August 2006. On December 4, 2007, Hamburg's Labor Court condemned the diaconal Christian institution (Diakonisches Werk) to pay an important amount to compensate a German Muslim woman of Turkish origin; they rejected her application on religious grounds. (Ref. 0800128)
According to the court’s explanations, published on February 4, 2008, the complainant, Yesim Fadia, 45, had applied to the Christian institution in Hamburg for a position of social educator in charge of young unemployed immigrants. This position was paid for by the federal State and by the European Union. When asked about her religion, Yesim Fadia would have answered that she was born a Muslim but that she did not practice. Then, the employer would have asked her if she was willing to convert a
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