Religious discrimination in the workplace – actual problems

Abstract

One could say that there are no borders in contemporary Europe. The four European freedoms allow us to move, stay, study, and work outside our home country. This simple and effective system is to lead to the abolition of barriers and the creation of a world open to all. However, the mixing of masses of people of different origins, having different cultures, and often also religion, raises many problems. In this paper, I will focus on discrimination on religious grounds in the work environment. I will present national regulations on the prohibition of discrimination and outline the situation in which the followers of the dominant religion and religious minorities find themselves. The issue of religious discrimination is particularly topical in Western European countries, such as France or Germany, which have become multicultural societies in recent years. In the paper, I will compare the scale of the problem and its solutions, on the example of Poland and France, based on national and European legislation and jurisprudence.