The Labour Court found that an employer’s neutrality policy, which meant banning a subway security host from wearing a Muslim headscarf, has not run afoul of the ban on discrimination based on gender and religion
Extension of the material scope of prohibition of discrimination on all grounds (except age) in all fields
Discrimination by association
Issue at stake: Parental leaves allowance, cut in contribution for working mothers, measures counteracting gender violence
Law 4/2024, of 15 January amended the text of Article 240 of the Portuguese Criminal Code to broaden up the scope of the offences related to discrimination and incitement to hatred, and violence
Evaluation of the National LGBT+ 2020-2023 Action plan
Law 3/2024, of 15 January, that creates the Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination and amends Law no. 93/2017, of 23 August
Unobstructed, safe and equal treatment of all citizens in Public Transport without discrimination against persons with disabilities
Survey on Living Conditions, Origins, and Trajectories of Resident Population in Portugal 2023
Mandatory additional admission points envisaged for persons with disabilities and multiply disadvantaged persons applying to higher education abolished along with reasonable accommodation duties for applicants with disabilities in the course of higher education admission exams
When does an employer have to raise defence against claim of discrimination for it to be considered in the court procedure
School records and disability
Issue at stake: The Committee of the Parties to the IC Recommendation on the implementation of the IC by Greece, following GREVIO’s first Baseline Evaluation Report.
Issue at stake: open positions in equality body to be filled after a controversial process, one person announced resignation
Issue at stake: LGBTI+ and women’s rights
Issue at stake: the 2023-2027 Action Plan on the implementation of Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security
Issue at stake: sexual harassment
Issue at stake: new parental leave (called “birth” leave, congé de naissance)
Issue at stake: gender equality and hate speech in the published 2022 Annual Report of Albanian Commissioner for Protection from Discrimination
Issue at stake: gender equality in the new Crosscutting Strategy for Decentralization and Local Governance 2023-2030
Issue at stake: hate speech towards LGBTI+ community
Issue at stake: marital captivity
Issue at stake: carers leave
Issue at stake: protection from redundancy for pregnant women and those returning from maternity leave
The new legislation introduces changes whereby a person experiencing domestic violence can also obtain protection from the perpetrator of the violence outside the place of residence
Issue at stake: introduction of penalisation female genital mutilation in the Istanbul Convention into the Polish legal system has led to an unequivocal ban on contraceptive sterilization of women
Issue at stake: Directive 2019/1158/EU – transposition in the private sector
Issue at stake: counteracting gender-based and domestic violence
Issue at stake: counteracting gender-based and domestic violence
Issue at stake: the right to flexible working.
Issue at stake: New laws regarding sexual harassment.
Issue at stake: Proposed amendments to the Criminal Act which could introduce the special criminal offence of femicide.
Issue at stake: equal treatment. Government ends Danish National Church’ exception from the Equal Treatment Act.
Segregation of Roma children in education.
Making improper use of computer and telecommunication equipment to incite hatred and mock persons with disability.
Discrimination of Roma in access to housing – forced eviction.
Modification of the three Federal acts fighting against discrimination.
The imposition of an upper age limit for appointment of notaries as a possible violation of the principle of equal treatment.
Segregation of Roma children in education.
Group action to request that measures be taken to put an end to racial profiling in Police identity controls.
Legality of Ministerial instruction forbidding abayas and qamis in public school as constituting ostentatious religious signs.
National Bar Council regulation imposing a neutrality dress code to lawyers’ formal dress when acting before the courts or in official capacity.
Registration of legal sex change, recognition of transgender identity.
Gender equality in career and remuneration
Gender discrimination
For the first time since its establishment in 1985, the term ‘gender equality’ has slipped down the title of the General Secretariat competent for gender equality.
Blanket exclusion of all managers in the public sector from the right to telework in breach of work-life balance and gender equality EU law.
Report of the Pay Structure Committee relating to equal pay.
A court decision triggered a legislative initiative to explicitly address the gender status of the beneficiaries of a pension scheme for women.
Reform of the General Act on Equal Treatment