Muslim girl plans to sue Disney.

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I must admit, I'd be a bit pissed off if my employer tried to push me into a side job to avoid discrimination issues. But on the other hand, I wouldn't want a job that clashed with my religious belief. But on the third hand , I live in a foreign country and know what it feels like to be expected to act like the locals in a way that is not normally acceptable in my own culture. But then again, she had worked there for 2 years and only just decided to cover her head, so being uncovered can't have been that objectionable to her.

I think it's okay. It's not like people judge people based on appearance, right?

This is another case of an epic level of WHO CARES?

Some Disney employees dress as GIANT MICE. Why does anybody give even the remotest toss if one of the rictus-grinning minions of the Haus Der Maus happens to be wearing a scarf?

I might add to all you cretins who think that a headscarf represents "bondage" and such equally dim ideas that the head-scarf as an item of apparel exists outside Islam and always has.



OH LOOK A MUSLIM!! ! IN A TANK!! ! Oh sorry no its Margaret Thatcher, a lady of a certain age in a tank.



OMG THERE'S ANOTHER ONE. LOOK AT HER BEING A SLAVE TO ISLAM. Ohnosorry thats HRH Queen Elizabeth. Head of the CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

I pity you, truly I do.

Darn, you beat me to it.

What about the fast food places where the staff are forced to wear really dumb hats and uniforms that make them feel like geeks?

I wonder if those ladies would sue if they were asked to remove it for work. Oh wait...

The Queen is a different matter. I think she bought a truckload of clothes back in 1955 and hasn't updated her wardrobe since then

The head scarf violated the employer's dress code. End of story.

ruveyn

Ahh... but is it? A Sikh has to wear a turban. An orthodox Jew has to wear a hat and/or a beard. An orthodox Muslim HAS to have an untrimmed beard.

I can see both sides of the story but I can't see any easy answers.

The 'easy' answer is, if you wish to do as you please find some place where that is acceptable or find a way where no one is a position to tell you what to do. She has no right to expect her company to change based on her whims.(no matter what the nature of that whim is)

Holy wtf if you're in another country you have to adapt to it to some extent. This is just ridiculous, I heard of some guy a long time ago who didn't want to wear a helmet cuz that means he would have to take off his turban. I know for a fact it's a multicultural nation but goddamn man it's not like you have to be such a tight ass.

What's next, the police department ends up getting sued cuz seat belts are sacrilegious?

It may be an old-fashioned choice of headgear, but it certainly isn't singularly Islamic.

The press spend a lot of time working out when they have seen the Queens clothes beforehand. Can't say as I understand why though.

Curious then how Indian society has managed to last so long, through wars and industrialisation and everything else with "unsafe" headgear....

Better winning move: Allow staff to wear Disney Head-scarves, market a range of them in the gift-shop, and away you go with the huge profiteering. Or how about giving her a position in the Alladin cast? Plenty of head-scarves in that.

I'm more interested in finding out WHY a specific item of clothing is verboten than anything else. Doesn't seem like it makes one iota of difference if she wears a head-scarf or not, she still has to grin like a a zombie and act like she's on uppers all day. I meet staff in various shops and venues all the time with all manner of head-gear, and I can't say as it ever detracted from the experience.

Finally: She wants to work at Disney, with the giant talking mouse and the flying elephant. She probably isn't a hard-liner.

The answer is clear: if you feel you have to wear some sort of clothing which a job won't allow you to wear, either take it off or don't take the job.

You may be thinking of the problems with UK policing in special fields of work (Riot and Firearms) where a substantial amount of effort was put into finding a suitable way to protect Sikh officers heads, based on current health and safety requirements. Surprisingly however, 15ft of cloth and hair is remarkably durable in most circumstances, and as capable of preventing blunt trauma as a regular police hat. Perhaps not so good against shrapnel or bullets though.

However, they seem to have missed the two world wars where Sikh soldiers fought with bravery and distinction sans helmet.

The turban isn't JUST about the cloth...there is a LOT of hair under there which is contained by the cloth. Any headgear would have to take that into account as well.

The only situation I have found so far where the headgear really was an definite operational issue was in the police helicopter crew, where obviously the helmet is quite integral to the operation of the machine.

That does not however answer the question of why a certain item of clothing, in itself harmless and inoffensive, should be forbidden in this job. After all, its not as if she was trying to work in The magical castle reception wearing a certain Cradle of Filth T-shirt and hot-pants. THAT, I could understand as being something Disney might feel was inappropriate to the situation.