Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Religion,The Cross and Employee Rights

No,the woman who was told she could not wear a cross whilst working on an aeroplane should not have been vindicated by the EU court. Employers alone should set the terms of employment and if they chose not to allow employees to wear religious ornaments that is their right and it should not be over ridden by the courts especially illegitimate ones in Srassbourg applying Napoleonic non objective laws.People can wear what they want but outside the workplace.When they hire themselves out they should abide the dress code of their employers or become self employed.This law should be consistently applied but of course Christians have a point when they say that they are being singled out whilst other religions notably Izlam and Hinduism get special dispensation and preference as illustrated in the recent case of the Seikh at Buckingham Palace who was allowed to wear his turban rather than the traditional Bearskin hat .Likewise in the police where the police helmet is substituted for the turban.This inconsistency is wrong but the conclusionshould not be that all religions should be allowed to set their own dress code in the workplace but that none of them should and that the principle be evenly and consistenly applied.

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