A British Airways employee has lost her appeal against her employer, who had banned her from wearing a necklace with a cross over her uniform. BA had asked Nadia Eweida, a fervent Catholic, to put her necklace it under her clothes. This case, obviously minor, is the third case over religious signs at work to be highlighted by newspapers, in less than a month. This could mean a change in mentalities. (Ref. 061170)
Last week, a lawyer, Shabnam Mughal, was replaced by a colleague after she refused to comply with an immigration court’s request to remove her Islamic niqad (scarf covering the entire face) during the audience. Following this case, which took place in Stoke-on-Trent in the West of the country, the highest magistrate of England and Wales asked for an urgent definition of clear rules in order to end the juridical fuzziness over the head-scarf in courts. At the end of October, the case of an auxil
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