Слобода вероисповести у Европској унији: ношење верских симбола на радном месту
Freedom of religion or belief in the European Union: wearing religious symbols in the workplace

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author deals with the manner in which the wearing of religious symbols in the workplace as a form of expression of faith is regulated in the law of the European Union. She concludes that the wearing of religious symbols is torn between the divergent aspirations of the EU to achieve an image of neutrality and to strengthen the protection of human rights through the prohibition of discrimination in order to facilitate access to the labour market. According to the author, wearing religious symbols at the workplace proves that this neutrality is understood as secularity, where religion is expected to be confined to the private sphere and the individual is expected to refrain from expressing it in public. This is supported by the business policy of neutrality, which the EU Court of Justice accepts as a legitimate goal of employers when prohibiting the wearing of religious symbols in the workplace. Consequently, it is an exclusionary conception of neutrality, which is equally hostile to the expression of all religions, instead of a pluralistic and inclusive one, which would respect all religions equally.

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