Hotels warned over ban on hijab-wearing women staff
Published on: Thursday, November 16, 2017
Ipoh: The Urban Well-being, Housing and Local Government Ministry Wednesday instructed local authorities to withdraw the licence of hotels which prohibit Muslim women employees from wearing the hijab at work.Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar said the policy of prohibiting Muslim women from wearing the hijab at work was contrary to the Federal Constitution and the human rights advocated internationally."If it is true that there are such complaints (of prohibition on the wearing of the hijab), I suggest that the local authorities withdraw the licence of the hotels because it is the right of Muslim women to wear the hijab, even if it involves international hotels.ADVERTISEMENT Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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"The international hotels should be more rational because freedom of religion and attire are advocated at the international level. Don't tell me one cannot be allowed to work just because one wears the hijab," he said to reporters here.Noh was asked to comment on the statement by the chairman of the Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH), Samuel Cheah Swee Hee, that it was the standard operating procedure of international hotel chains to prohibit the wearing of the hijab at work.