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“It is not acceptable that people seek to escape from common rules regarding secularism,” he said on the social network on Friday. “I support this association, state operator, which only applies the law. As Minister of the Interior, I will fight tirelessly to roll back separatism. »
The council of the Nancy Reception and Social Reintegration Association (AARS), “State operator”, modified its internal regulations on August 10, which were obsolete, explained a SUD union delegate. On this occasion, a neutrality clause (religious, political and philosophical) was established, explains the union in a press release.
On September 19, “two employees of the Muslim association” who wore the veil were the subject of an interview with the president of the association “for an explanation of the text”, continues SUD. “Three solutions were offered to them”: the removal of their veil, a conventional termination or dismissal, lists the union.
A union denounces the “brutality of the situation”
The employees concerned were to give a response to management on Thursday, but currently on sick leave, they have not yet done so, according to a union source denouncing the “brutality of the situation”.
When contacted, the AARS management did not respond. “How can we accept a limitation of individual freedoms, political opinions, philosophical thoughts in a sector that is perpetually animated and crossed by social, societal, political, religious and philosophical questions,” asked SUD.
According to the union, management argues that the association’s employees carry out a public service mission and must therefore follow the same rules as civil servants, subject, as required by law, to the duty of neutrality.
Demonstration for the withdrawal of the neutrality clause
The association employs 300 people, mainly around Nancy and in the south of Meurthe-et-Moselle. Its actions are distributed around social emergencies, accommodation, medico-social and support towards employment and housing, according to a job offer published on the France Travail website.
A rally is planned at the union’s call on Wednesday in Nancy, during the next AARS board of directors, “to ask governance to withdraw the neutrality clause”.