Dutch airline KLM discriminated when he asked a woman to be an Orthodox man, according to a watchdog.
A Dutch human rights board found the national airline KLM guilty of discriminating against a woman who was moved from her seat because an Orthodox Jewish man wouldn’t sit near her.
Human Rights College, a surveillance organization whose members are appointed through the King, issued the resolution Thursday in a may 2019 review of an incident on a plane traveling from New York to Amsterdam, AD News reported.
KLM “discriminated against the couple on the basis of sex by failing to provide a non-discriminatory environment for a flight.”
Ronald van Raak, a Socialist Party MP, filed a complaint with the College after his wife was evacuated from her seat due to protests by an Orthodox passenger who said she did not need to sit next to a woman. (This situation occurs from time to time on flights, where other people have no discretion on where to sit.)
KLM’s cabin crew asked van Raak to “cooperate with this issue” to “make the boarding procedure as elegant as possible,” the rights committee said. “However, the Orthodox Jewish guy was not convicted of his behavior, nor was it transparent to him that there were discriminatory aspects,” he said, adding, “In addition, the Orthodox Jewish guy or the society of which he was a member was not questioned. to cooperate with the seating problem. »