If the so-called neutrality law is abolished, as the Berlin Greens want, female police officers will be able to do their job in the German capital wearing headscarves. According to a report in the newspaper Berliner Tagesspiegel, the Berlin Green parliamentary group argues in a motion that the Neutrality Act bars women ‘who have decided to wear a headscarf’ from entering the civil service.
The Greens’ motion is now to be debated in the Berlin House of Representatives. Until now, the Neutrality Act has prohibited the wearing of religious symbols and clothing by ‘civil servants employed in the administration of justice, the penal system or the police’ while on duty. Following a number of lawsuits and a judgement by the Federal Constitutional Court, the ban no longer applies to teachers in Berlin, reports the newspaper Die Welt.
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