Refusing job over Muslim headscarf wrong: German court

A German court has ruled against a dentist who admitted he had refused to employ a Muslim woman because she declined to remove her headscarf, a court spokesman said Thursday.

"The dentist broke the law because he refused the plaintiff the position only because she didn't want to take off her headscarf," the spokesman for the Berlin industrial tribunal said.

The move was against non-discrimination laws, he added.

He said the court had ordered the dentist to pay 1,500 euros ($1,966) in damages to the young woman who had applied for an assistant's job in his dental practice. (continue reading...)