Greece
Non-discrimination law | Athanasios Theodoridis | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Gender equality law | Panagiota Petroglou | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Legal developments
The transfer of the General Secretariat for Gender Equality from the Ministry of Interior to the Ministry of Labour undermines the implementation of substantive gender equality legislation and policies
New provisions of the Penal Code on domestic violence
New provisions of the Penal Code on domestic violence
Abolition of punishment of activities of discriminatory provision of goods and services
Substantive equality
Positive action; Adoption of a quota of 40 % in favour of the underrepresented sex for candidates at the European Elections and the Parliamentary, Regional and Municipal Elections in Greece
Sanctions against a private company for the dismissal of a HIV positive employee
Discrimination in the field of access to medical services
Discrimination in public sector recruitments on grounds of (national) origin
A discriminatory practice of dismissal of an employee who suffered from multiple sclerosis
Repeal of the fiscal law provision obliging the spouses to submit a joint income tax return
Recognition of non-paid parental leave as working time
Access of public employees to programmes of post graduate education
Exclusion of female cleaners from the possibility to be transferred to another branch of a private bank resulted in the termination of their employment contract
Discriminatory treatment against a person by reason of his/ her origin on behalf of the Greek Manpower Organisation for Employment
Access to the profession of doctor in the National Health System without discriminatory treatment on ground of age
The fiscal legislation provides that the spouses are obliged to submit a joint income tax return
Sanctioning by Greece of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
Legal recognition of gender identity
Discriminatory treatment of candidate employees of Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Discriminatory treatment of family members of third country national in the field of social protection
Specification of the implementation of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Discrimination in the field of social protection against legal resident third-country workers, who pay the same contributions to insurance agencies as Greek citizens
The Judges Code provides that a judge whose spouse does not work is not entitled to parental leave unless the spouse is unable to look after the child due to illness or injury
Enforcement of equal treatment on the ground of age in the field of employment in the public sector