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BBC OS: EU's Headscarf Ruling

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14/03/2017 GMT

EU's Headscarf Ruling

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The EU's top court rules that employers can ban headscarves.

The European Union's highest court has ruled that companies can prohibit employees from wearing visible political, philosophical or religious symbols.

A legal expert explains the ruling by the European Court of Justice that allows companies to ban staff from wearing visible religious symbols such as headscarves.

Also today: Somali pirates are suspected of hijacking an oil tanker; reaction to Scotland's announcement of plans to call a second referendum on independence from the United Kingdom; a British cruise ship that accidentally ran aground in one of Indonesia's most pristine coral reefs, and Scottish golf club Muirfield will allow women to join for the first time. 

(Photo: Muslim woman. Credit: Getty Images)

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