KUALA LUMPUR: Women working in customer service or in the frontline who are prohibited from wearing headscarves can take legal action aganist their employers, a human rights group said. Centre for Human Rights Research and Advocacy (Centhra) chief executive Azril Mohd Amin said employers who failed to respect the freedom of religious practice to wear a headscarf at the workplace were violating Article 11 of the Federal Constitution. Wearing headscarves obviously does not fall under these categories. “Responsible Muslims and anyone who value human rights must boycott these companies and their products,” he said in a statement on his Facebook page, adding that a list of such companies must be made public. Malaysia Association of Hotels president Cheah Swee Han however had defended the hotel’s action, saying it was part of an international policy and that every hotel had their own standard operation procedures.

Source: New Strait Times November 13, 2017 02:03 UTC