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MNA International Desk: The European Union’s highest court has allowed companies to ban staff from wearing Islamic headscarves at work, but only as part of a general policy barring all religious and political symbols. The ruling arrives on the eve of elections in Netherland, where Muslim immigration has been a controversial issue and in France; where the race to succeed President François Hollande remains wide open. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg ruled the garments could be banned, however, adding that if the company has no policy barring religious symbols then customers cannot simply demand workers remove their ...

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