CELEX: 62015CN0157
Language: en
Date: 2015-04-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-157/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van Cassatie (Belgium) lodged on 3 April 2015 — Samira Achbita, Centrum voor gelijkheid van kansen en voor racismebestrijding v G4S Secure Solutions NV

22.6.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 205/17
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van Cassatie (Belgium) lodged on 3 April 2015 — Samira Achbita, Centrum voor gelijkheid van kansen en voor racismebestrijding v G4S Secure Solutions NV
   (Case C-157/15)
   (2015/C 205/24)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Hof van Cassatie
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Samira Achbita, Centrum voor gelijkheid van kansen en voor racismebestrijding
   
      Defendant: G4S Secure Solutions NV
   
      Question referred
   
   Should Article 2(2)(a) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC (1) of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation be interpreted as meaning that the prohibition on wearing, as a female Muslim, a headscarf at the workplace does not constitute direct discrimination where the employer’s rule prohibits all employees from wearing outward signs of political, philosophical and religious beliefs at the workplace?
   
      (1)  OJ 2000 L 303, p. 16.