In order to establish a completely neutral working environment, a public administration may decide to prohibit the wearing of religious symbols in the workplace, ruled the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in a judgment handed down on Tuesday 28 November (case C-148/22).
In Belgium, a municipal employee whose managerial duties do not involve contact with users of the public service is challenging the fact that the municipality of Ans had prohibited her to wear an Islamic...