On Thursday 15 July, the European Court of Justice, sitting as a Grand Chamber, ruled (joined cases C-804/18 et C-341/19) that a ban on employees wearing visible signs of political, philosophical or religious conviction in the workplace can be justified by the employer’s need to present itself in a neutral manner to customers or to prevent social conflict. However, the employer must be able to prove that there is a genuine need, and the prohibition must be uniform, consistent, systematic...