Greece
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Successive increase and decrease of minimum height requirement for female candidates to Port Police makes doubtful whether the set height of 1.65 m is a genuine occupational requirement
Higher minimum height for male candidates to the Fire Brigade does not entail gender discrimination
Follow-up to the CJEU Kalliri C-409/16 - Common minimum height requirement to the detriment of women for access to the Police Academy entails indirect gender discrimination
Urgent measures for family related leave due to COVID-19
Enactment of unfavorable conditions for access of stateless Roma to procedures of naturalisation and attempted enactment regarding persons with disabilities
Non-renewal of the fixed term contract of a female employee due to childbirth
Exclusion of male lawyers, who are insured with the social security scheme for the lawyers of Athens, from the allowance covering the nursery fees of children aged one to five years provided only for female lawyers
Non equal treatment on the ground of racial or ethnic origin in regard with the reception of social allowances
Monitoring of discrimination cases concerning public and private sector on behalf of the competent Equality Body
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
