The Dutch News website reports today (April 20, 2011) that a toy shop in Almelo, Holland has been criticized by the Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) for refusing to give any more work to a shop assistant who wears an Islamic headscarf.
The commission said the shop is discriminating against the teenager on religious grounds.
The girl had worked at the shop wearing a headscarf, but was asked to remove it after a customer refused to be served by her.
The shop says the girl was asked -- not ordered -- to remove the scarf, but was taken off the roster because of the "angry and intimidating" way she reacted.
The commission's findings are not binding.
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