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Non-conformity of the decision of the plenary assembly of the Court of Cassation in relation to the dismissal of a child care director for wearing the Islamic veil to the International Covenant on Civil and political right
Various legislative proposals regarding gender equality are currently being debated in parliament
Documenting the reality of discriminatory practices among law firms in France
Legality of ‘solutions of equivalent effect’ implemented in derogation to the obligation to ensure accessibility to persons with disability of newly built housing
Statutory discrimination on the ground of nationality, i.e. indirect discrimination on the ground of origin, throughout the claimants’ career
Criminal liability of a Mayor for refusal to register Roma children in elementary school
The wearing of a beard interpreted as a religious sign in the public service
Reform of Labour relations and rules relating to compensation of dismissal
Assessing the risk of discrimination in access to housing of young people throughout the national territory in combination with multiple factors
Criminal Liability of Social Housing corporations’ collegial commissions of attribution
Whether the request of a client that an IT engineer intervening on site dress in a neutral manner and remove an Islamic veil can be held to be a genuine and determining occupational requirement
Scope of indemnification of the annulment of a dismissal based on discrimination on the ground of age
Positive Action
Whether the request of a client that an IT engineer intervening on site dress in a neutral manner and remove an Islamic veil can be held to be a genuine and determining occupational requirement
The main French trade unions have challenged the admissibility of the candidacy to the professional elections of the National Corsican Trade Union because it promotes the ‘corsicanisation’ of hiring in Corsica
The Conformity to the prohibition of discrimination based on origin of the constitution of police controls based on orders of the public prosecutor to control illegal immigrants
Various provisions relating to the promotion of equality and improvement of the overall legal regime of protection against discrimination
Liability of the State for practices of racial profiling
Various reforms of the justice system including the unification of the legal protection against discrimination on all grounds covered by French law and the creation of a class action in matters of discrimination
New provisions in gender equality and non-discrimination
Legality of Municipal bylaws forbidding Islamic swimwear on the beach
Introduction of the possibility to limit expression of religious freedom by way of the employer’s in-house regulation
Creation of a new ground of prohibited discrimination based on social precariousness
Statutory discrimination on the ground of nationality, i.e. indirect discrimination on the ground of origin, throughout plaintiffs’ career
Whether District school authorities can exclude mothers wearing an exterior religious sign such as an Islamic Veil from school activities
