Netherlands: Man banned from municipality buildings for insulting headscarf wearing employee
The Hoogezand-Sappemeer municipality in the Netherlands banned a man who treated an employee with a headscarf aggressively. A municipality spokesperson confirmed the news report which appeared in the Dagblad van het Noorden.
A week ago the man refused to be helped by a headscarf wearing employee and made that clear very loudly. He spoke to the woman with 'discrimination and contempt'.
The municipality later invited the man for a talk, but when that didn't lead to anything, the council decided to ban the man (for a year) from all municipal buildings.
The council thereby wants to make it clear that 'such emotions will on no account be tolerated in a multicultural municipality like Hoogezand-Sappemeer". The employee was shaken by the incident and will lodge a complaint by the discrimination hot-line. The municipality couldn't say if the ban is unique.
Source: AD (Dutch)
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