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

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

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

Air transport carriers obligation to provide access to air transport to disabled persons with reduced mobility and the scope of opposable safety requirements

Liability of the State for practices of racial profiling

Extend the protection against discrimination to anti-poor exclusion