Religious Diversity in the Workplace: (How) Should Neutrality Apply to Private Employers?
(2018) Eleventh Annual Conference of the Law and Religion Scholars Network (LARSN) — Location: Oxford Brookes University (19.April.2018)
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- This communication aims at analysing, in the light of European anti-discrimination law, the requirements and limits to the application of the concept of religious neutrality to private employers. In response to individual requests made by employees related to the expression of their personal religious beliefs at work, some employers now refer to the principle of neutrality. More and more private employers, in particular in France and Belgium, make use of religious neutrality in order to restrict or forbid religious expressions in the workplace. This paper proposes to assess whether the reference to neutrality – e.g. in the internal rules of the company – is a relevant legal response for the employer to religious requests made by his/her employees, or whether this neutrality puts workers at risk of religious discrimination. In order to achieve this goal, we will develop a typology of four possible meanings of a “neutral” company, depending on its internal or external perspective and on its instrumental or ideological objective.
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Vanbellingen, L. (2018). Religious Diversity in the Workplace: (How) Should Neutrality Apply to Private Employers? Eleventh Annual Conference of the Law and Religion Scholars Network (LARSN), Oxford Brookes University. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/239863