Legal developments
Segregation of Roma children in education
Strengthening the protection of persons with disabilities against discrimination and improvement of conditions of accessibility for persons with disabilities in all the country's courthouses
Awareness of discrimination
Registered partnership must be registered in the population register on the same basis as marriage
Despite the introduction of innovative administrative fines for breaches of the prohibition of violence and harassment at work, Act 4808/2021, ratifying ILO 190, still falls behind its scope
First Federal Racism Report with the title Racism in Germany: Starting Point, Fields of Action, Measures
Gender based violence against women
Equal pay certification system has not changed the gender pay gap
New provisions on violence and harassment in the public sector in breach of the non-regression principle
‘Gendering’, the use of gender gap and gender sensitive languages and the application of Constitutional law and the General Equal Treatment Act (briefly state)
New provision on adoptive leave sets the time of the payment of the allowance in consistency with the time of entitlement to the adoptive leave, albeit with no retroactive effect
Female candidates’ low position in the lists
Gender equality ignored by the conservatives
Constitutional non-discrimination provision amended
Governmental inter-ministerial programme to fight racism, antisemitism and discrimination on the ground of origin
Report of the Disability and Human Rights Observatory - complaints concerning disability or aggravated health risk discrimination increased 16.8 % in 2021 compared to 2020
Direct discrimination due to age in the call for expression of interest for the recruitment of an administrative officer
Discrimination in employment on grounds of visual impairment
Albania ratifies ILO Convention No. 190 on Violence and Harassment in Employment (C190)
Completing the implementation of the EU Directive (2019/1158) on Work-Life Balance
Implementation of the Work Life Balance Directive into national law, modifying various minor aspects in the light of the Directive
Data analysis of origin to establish discrimination in hiring practices
Promotion of a negative stereotype regarding persons with homosexual orientation
A new model for disability assessment, better access to help and services, accessibility of information, handling of complaints etc.
Member and President of the Equality Body Resigned
National Airway company dress code and the right of men of African origin to wear braided hair
The German Bishop Conference amends and liberalises regulations guidelines for employees promoting diversity
Partial reform of the Non-Discrimination Act approved in the Parliament
Triage Act: Second Law to Amend the German Protection Against Infection Act (Infektionsschutzgesetz, IfSG) to protect against eventual discrimination
Legality of the Minister of Labour’s authorisation to dismiss a union representative, protected employee, for addressing his subordinates with racist, islamophobic and sexist language
Advocacy of the right of victim to be afforded access to evidence in discrimination cases
Social media religious expression of an employee assuming public service duty
Equality Body finds age discrimination in the statutes of the journalists’ union which prohibit members no longer working as journalists from being elected in the governing board
Ground-breaking actio popularis case of direct and indirect discrimination of children that abuse drugs
Implementation of the EU Directives (2000/43/EC, 2000/78/EC, 2004/113/EC and 2006/54/EC) in the fields of competence of the Joint Community Commission (Commission Communautaire Commune – Gemeenschappelijke Gemeenschapscommissie) of the Brussels-Capital Region
Publication of the 2021 Annual Report of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency
Ground-breaking case of harassment by a CSO
A new Organic Law of comprehensive guarantee of sexual freedom has been passed
The key national policy instrument on gender equality adopted
Implementation of Directive 2019/1158
Supreme Court ruled that it did not constitute discrimination because of disability to dismiss a swimming instructor who had been granted a flex job because of her diagnoses of anxiety, depression and ADHD. The employer had fulfilled its obligation to provide reasonable accommodation
Effectiveness of anti-discrimination legislation
The key national policy instrument on equality and non-discrimination adopted
Following amendment of its internal regulations and statutes, the main opposition political party ‘SYRIZA’ is the first Greek party to adopt a 50-50 gender equality quota for elections to its governing bodies
The Supreme Administrative Court considered that the police stop and search action was based on ethnic profiling and therefore was direct discrimination prohibited in the Non-Discrimination Act
Segregation of Roma women in maternity health care
The Spanish Constitutional Court has decided for the first time on a case of employment discrimination on grounds of gender identity
Pay during family leave is not a legal obligation, but it is common as a collective agreement obligation. Mothers on maternity leave have been paid for a longer period than fathers on paternity leave. The new family leave legislation that came into force in the beginning of August replaced maternity leave with a much shorter pregnancy leave. The change caused difficult collective agreement negotiations, with possibly shorter duration of pay for women giving birth than previously
The President wins a case at the Supreme Court against the Parliament and has two laws, which were seeking to remove age discrimination provisions, declared unconstitutional for leading to an increase of the state budget
The obstacles that students with disabilities face in the Greek educational system as a deterrent for their equal treatment and their inclusion
