Sentences with phrase «religious neutrality»

The policies should integrate the objectives of religious neutrality of the state and management of religious accommodation requests into the daily functioning of these institutions.

A state may be secular without religious neutrality, or it may be religiously neutral without being secular.

The bishops forced the nation to face the embarrassing fact that its commitment to religious neutrality in public life had been seriously compromised.

That the accommodation requested does not compromise the principle of State religious neutrality.

We must never confuse the requirement for religious neutrality of the government with the rights of our students to engage in religious expression.»

Premier Markus Söder has denied that the law, which comes into effect on 1st June, ignores constitutional rules on religious neutrality.

The question becomes more demanding once two things are taken into account: first, neither article 10 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, read in conjunction with article 52, nor the European Convention on Human Rights, include the preservation of religious neutrality as a ground for restricting religious freedom.

However, public employees would not be permitted to request accommodation on religious grounds with respect to the duties and obligations regarding religious neutrality and having one's face uncovered.

However, you know what happened: an election was called, stalling progress on any federal religious neutrality law.

Esp religious neutrality.

Our military Chaplains do not prosthelytize, and must maintain every measure of religious neutrality when counseling others of different faith.

Therefore, if there is a method of achieving the aim of religious neutrality which would cause less hardship to employees, this should be preferred over a blanket ban on all religious symbols or dress.

Bernard Drainville, Quebec's Minister responsible for Democratic Institutions and Active Citizenship, has finally introduced legislation affirming the values of secularism and religious neutrality with respect to the province of Quebec.

In fact, The ECJ actually referred to the ECHR's judgment in Eweida, using that case to support the position that sometimes it will be necessary to prioritise the business» right to display religious neutrality over the individual's right to manifest religion.

The Bill provides that public body personnel must maintain religious neutrality in the exercise of their functions.

The Bill provides that employees of public bodies must demonstrate religious neutrality in the exercise of their functions by being careful to neither favour nor hinder a person because of the person's religious affiliation or non-affiliation.

No doubt her argument that the ban will survive scrutiny is based on some purported need of Quebec to legislate religious neutrality because of its history of church interference in politics and public life, up to the 1960s.

It specifically provides that government and public agency staff should exercise religious neutrality in the exercise of their functions, which implies not favouring or discriminating against a person because of membership or not in a specific religion.

Establish a policy for all government ministries and organizations to implement religious neutrality of the state and the management of religious accommodation for all government bodies and agencies.

For example, most Western human rights advocates, even from Christian traditions, would say that religious freedom requires state religious neutrality.

The policy would also state and define the duties of employees regarding religious neutrality and restraints in the exercise of their functions, including:

To this end, the Bill defines the concept of accommodation, asserts that the government will make any compromise to respect the right to equality between women and men and the principle of religious neutrality of the state, and provides that an accommodation can not be granted if it imposes an undue hardship on the government department or agency.

Indeed, much of American public education is conducted under the banner of religious neutrality, and public opinion is increasingly restless about it.

There is, in short, no religious neutrality.

Cultural tolerance and religious neutrality was the norm.

On Tuesday November 7, 2017, the first legal challenge to the Quebec law (Bill 62) on the religious neutrality of the state was filed in Superior Court... [more]

An amended version of Bill 62, An Act to foster adherence to State religious neutrality and, in particular, to provide a framework for religious accommodation requests in certain bodies to foster respect for religious neutrality of the state and aimed in particular to frame requests for religious accommodations in certain organizations passed third reading on October 18, 2017, with a vote of 66 - 51.

No matter what government will lead Quebec, religious neutrality of the state seems to be common ground among the political parties.

But if the only reason the state will not let it have one is its religious belief, then the state is in default of its duty of religious neutrality, which applies as much to prevent the state from singling out a set of beliefs for a particular burden as to prevent it singling out a set of beliefs for special support (the proposition upheld by the Supreme Court in Mouvement laïque québécois v. Saguenay (City), 2015 SCC 16, [2015] 2 SCR 3).

Justices Louis LeBel and Marshall Rothstein concurred with the judgment on dismissing the appeal, but argued for «a clear rule that niqabs may not be worn at any stage of the criminal trial» in the interests of openness and religious neutrality.

In 2013, the Parti Quebecois «Quebec Charter of Values» that would have also imposed religious neutrality to all state personnel, including in education and health care did a better job of explaining «religious neutrality», and how it would work, but it did go to far in targeting the Muslim population.

I would think that if one really wanted to foster «state religious neutrality» it would be by ensuring that the state acted neutrally towards all those of all religions, as well as the non-religious.

Singling out a single religion or religious practice strikes me as the antithesis of religious neutrality.

As for the religious neutrality of the State, yes John, the law did not do enough to substantiate that point.

Just to echo Sally's comment (which seems to have been misunderstood)-- if «this rule is intended to ensure the quality of communication between people, to validate the person's identity and to promote security» — then what does it have to do with «religious neutrality» — shouldn't it apply to all situations where faces are concealed?

On Tuesday, September 10, 2013, Quebec's Parti Quebecois government led by Pauline Marois released its proposal for a Charter of Quebec Values, which would decree the religious neutrality of the state and its employees and management of religious accommodation.

«desire to display, in relations with both public and private sector customers, a policy of political, philosophical or religious neutrality must be considered legitimate» (para 37).

Employers thinking of banning all religious or political symbols in the workplace will need to ensure they apply the same rule to all viewpoints, and make sure it can be justified by reference to a pre-existing policy of religious neutrality.

The ECJ ruled that «the desire to display, in relations with both public and private sector customers, a policy of political, philosophical or religious neutrality must be considered legitimate».

On Tuesday November 7, 2017, the first legal challenge to the Quebec law (Bill 62) on the religious neutrality of the state was filed in Superior Court.

This is the fourth time that the Quebec government (under different leadership) has tried to pass a bill to clarify the religious neutrality of the state and set guidelines for the granting of... [more]

Quebec Justice Minister recently tabled Bill 62, An Act to foster adherence to State religious neutrality and, in particular, to provide a framework for religious accommodation requests in certain bodies fostering respect for religious neutrality of the state and aimed in particular to frame requests for religious accommodations in certain organizations.

This opinion is interesting as it confirms that, the need for political and religious neutrality can be a legitimate aim under the Framework Directive and may therefore justify direct discrimination (if indeed, this policy was discriminatory in the first place).