WORLD Policy Analysis Center

Are employers required to take steps to prevent workplace discrimination on the basis of religion?

The term “religion” includes references to ‘creed’, ‘religious belief’, ‘religious opinion’, ‘religious adherence’, ‘religious community’ or ‘confession’. For the purposes of this variable, the term “religion” captures all of these definitions.

No prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion indicates that legislation does not specifically prohibit religion-based workplace discrimination broadly, nor specifically against discrimination in hiring, promotions and/or demotions, training, pay, nor terminations. This does not mean that legislation denies this guarantee.

No explicit requirements means that legislation does explicitly prohibit at least one of these forms of religion-based workplace discrimination, but it does not at the same time pair this prohibition with an explicit requirement that employers actively prevent it.

General requirement, but no specific measures means that employers are generally required to prevent religion-based workplace discrimination, but there are no specific descriptions of the form that this prevention should take.

Employers required to take one or more measures means that employers are explicitly required to take at least one concrete preventive action against religion-based workplace discrimination, such as, for example, providing training to employees, developing a code of conduct, or raising awareness of existing legislation.

Countries

Afghanistan - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Algeria - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Bangladesh - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Brunei - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Greenland - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

India - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Jamaica - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Jordan - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Democratic People's Republic of Korea - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Laos - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Lebanon - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Liechtenstein - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Malaysia - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Marshall Islands - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Micronesia, Federated States of - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Monaco - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Myanmar - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Nauru - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Nigeria - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Oman - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Pakistan - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Palau - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Papua New Guinea - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

The Philippines - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Qatar - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

San Marino - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Saudi Arabia - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Sierra Leone - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Singapore - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Solomon Islands - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Sri Lanka - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Sudan - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Switzerland - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Thailand - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Tonga - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Tunisia - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

United Arab Emirates - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Uruguay - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on religion

Andorra - No explicit requirements

Angola - No explicit requirements

Antigua and Barbuda - No explicit requirements

Argentina - No explicit requirements

Armenia - No explicit requirements

Australia - No explicit requirements

Austria - No explicit requirements

Azerbaijan - No explicit requirements

Bahamas - No explicit requirements

Bahrain - No explicit requirements

Belarus - No explicit requirements

Belize - No explicit requirements

Benin - No explicit requirements

Bolivia - No explicit requirements

Botswana - No explicit requirements

Brazil - No explicit requirements

Burkina Faso - No explicit requirements

Burundi - No explicit requirements

Cameroon - No explicit requirements

Canada - No explicit requirements

Cabo Verde - No explicit requirements

Central African Republic - No explicit requirements

Chad - No explicit requirements

Chile - No explicit requirements

China - No explicit requirements

Comoros - No explicit requirements

Democratic Republic of the Congo - No explicit requirements

Republic of the Congo - No explicit requirements

Costa Rica - No explicit requirements

Croatia - No explicit requirements

Cuba - No explicit requirements

Cyprus - No explicit requirements

Denmark - No explicit requirements

Djibouti - No explicit requirements

Dominica - No explicit requirements

Dominican Republic - No explicit requirements

Egypt - No explicit requirements

El Salvador - No explicit requirements

Equatorial Guinea - No explicit requirements

Eritrea - No explicit requirements

Ethiopia - No explicit requirements

Fiji - No explicit requirements

Gabon - No explicit requirements

The Gambia - No explicit requirements

Ghana - No explicit requirements

Grenada - No explicit requirements

Guatemala - No explicit requirements

Guinea - No explicit requirements

Guinea-Bissau - No explicit requirements

Guyana - No explicit requirements

Haiti - No explicit requirements

Honduras - No explicit requirements

Hungary - No explicit requirements

Indonesia - No explicit requirements

Iran - No explicit requirements

Ireland - No explicit requirements

Israel - No explicit requirements

Italy - No explicit requirements

Japan - No explicit requirements

Kazakhstan - No explicit requirements

Kiribati - No explicit requirements

Kuwait - No explicit requirements

Kyrgyzstan - No explicit requirements

Latvia - No explicit requirements

Lesotho - No explicit requirements

Liberia - No explicit requirements

Libya - No explicit requirements

Luxembourg - No explicit requirements

North Macedonia - No explicit requirements

Madagascar - No explicit requirements

Malawi - No explicit requirements

Maldives - No explicit requirements

Mali - No explicit requirements

Mauritania - No explicit requirements

Mexico - No explicit requirements

Montenegro - No explicit requirements

Morocco - No explicit requirements

Mozambique - No explicit requirements

Namibia - No explicit requirements

Nepal - No explicit requirements

The Netherlands - No explicit requirements

New Zealand - No explicit requirements

Nicaragua - No explicit requirements

Niger - No explicit requirements

Panama - No explicit requirements

Paraguay - No explicit requirements

Portugal - No explicit requirements

Russian Federation - No explicit requirements

Rwanda - No explicit requirements

Samoa - No explicit requirements

Sao Tome and Principe - No explicit requirements

Senegal - No explicit requirements

Serbia - No explicit requirements

Seychelles - No explicit requirements

Somalia - No explicit requirements

South Sudan - No explicit requirements

Spain - No explicit requirements

St. Kitts and Nevis - No explicit requirements

St. Lucia - No explicit requirements

St. Vincent and the Grenadines - No explicit requirements

Suriname - No explicit requirements

Eswatini - No explicit requirements

Syria - No explicit requirements

Tajikistan - No explicit requirements

Timor-Leste - No explicit requirements

Trinidad and Tobago - No explicit requirements

Türkiye - No explicit requirements

Turkmenistan - No explicit requirements

Tuvalu - No explicit requirements

Uganda - No explicit requirements

Ukraine - No explicit requirements

United Kingdom - No explicit requirements

United States of America - No explicit requirements

Vanuatu - No explicit requirements

Venezuela - No explicit requirements

Yemen - No explicit requirements

Zimbabwe - No explicit requirements

Bosnia and Herzegovina - General requirement, but no specific measures

Czech Republic - General requirement, but no specific measures

Iceland - General requirement, but no specific measures

Iraq - General requirement, but no specific measures

Norway - General requirement, but no specific measures

Peru - General requirement, but no specific measures

Slovakia - General requirement, but no specific measures

Togo - General requirement, but no specific measures

Albania - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Barbados - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Belgium - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Bhutan - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Bulgaria - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Cambodia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Colombia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Cote d'Ivoire - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Ecuador - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Estonia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Finland - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

France - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Georgia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Germany - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Greece - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Kenya - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Republic of Korea - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Lithuania - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Malta - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Mauritius - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Moldova - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Mongolia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Poland - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Romania - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Slovenia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

South Africa - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Sweden - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Tanzania - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Uzbekistan - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Vietnam - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Zambia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures