Denmark
Non-discrimination law | Pia Justesen | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Legal developments
Danish law prohibiting discrimination due to disability does not involve an obligation to provide reasonable accommodation outside the labour market area
Dismissal of an employee due to flexibility as indirect gender discrimination
Denial of service
Dismissal and level of compensation
Reasonable accommodation and dismissal
The effects of COVID-19 on gender equality
The local municipality of Herning established a special section in a primary school for children with an ethnic minority background
Denial of tort compensation for unjustified loss of a social service
Reasonable accommodation at a municipal job centre
First three cases dealing with discrimination because of disability adjudicated according to the new 2018 Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination due to Disability
Supreme Court ruling on dismissal of office worker in flex-job and possible discrimination based on age and disability
First decisions by the Board of Equal Treatment to conclude discriminatory dismissals because of religion or belief
Report to the UNCRPD Committee from the Danish Institute for Human Rights describing that persons with disabilities generally are in a disadvantageous position when compared to the rest of the population in Denmark
New laws to prevent and dismantle ghettos and parallel societies in Denmark
New Danish Act requires individuals to shake hands with a Danish official to obtain citizenship
New bills to prevent and dismantle ghettos and parallel societies in Denmark
New report on unregistered migrants in Denmark
Danish parliament adopted new law prohibiting face covering in the public sphere
Danish parliament adopted new act prohibiting discrimination because of disability
The responsibility of the manager to guarantee a working environment without harassment because of ethnic origin
Whether a psychosocial impairment constituted a disability
A medical diagnosis is not necessary to establish that an employee has a disability at the time of dismissal
The extent of the employer’s obligation to provide reduced working hours as a reasonable accommodation
Recommendations from ECRI on school segregation in Denmark
Does it constitute discrimination that a vocational school has prohibited the exercise of religious rituals at the school?