Samenvatting

In OP v Commune d’Ans (C-148/22), the Court of Justice of the European Union rightly granted the municipal authority a fairly broad margin for establishing policies with respect to prohibiting the showing of signs of inter alia religious faith in the municipal workplace. In doing so, the Court seems to grant the public sector a larger degree of liberty in this respect than it did in its judgments concerning the private sector in interpreting Directive 2000/78/EC – Establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation. Such discrepancy is questionable.