No bill has yet been tabled to ban subsidized daycare educators from wearing religious symbols, but unions representing those workers say they are concerned.

The Rousseau-Pelchat committee, tasked with reviewing compliance with Quebec’s secularism law, recommended such a measure in a report released Tuesday.

On Thursday, the government said it plans to eventually table legislation to strengthen secularism. But it is not yet clear if it will be limited to banning street prayers, or if it will also cover the wearing of religious symbols by workers in subsidized daycare centres.

In an interview Friday, Anne-Marie Bellerose, president of the Fédération des intervenantes en petite enfance (FIPEQ), which is affiliated with the CSQ, said she is worried but will wait to see the details of the b

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