France
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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
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
