France
Non-discrimination law | Sophie Latraverse | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Gender equality law | Marie Mercat-Bruns | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Legal developments
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
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
Enforce the many decision of the Conseil d’Etat and the UN Human rights Committee declaring the legal regime applicable to Traveller
Creation of a class action specific to anti-discrimination legal actions
Scope of the obligation of neutrality and applicability towards mothers on school field trips
Consequences of the Leone Judgment