Legal developments
Indirect discrimination upon returning from parental leave
New provisions on family-related leave in the public sector
Annual report of the national equality body for 2019
Adopted policies for persons with disabilities
Implementation of policies and measures concerning persons living in marginalised Roma communities in the context of the current spread of COVID-19
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
The local municipality of Herning established a special section in a primary school for children with an ethnic minority background
Adoption of law proposal
Enactment of unfavorable conditions for access of stateless Roma to procedures of naturalisation and attempted enactment regarding persons with disabilities
Pregnant women, maternity and parental leave
Liechtenstein Government hosted the second national conference on the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
CRPD adopted recommendations to improve the rights of persons with disabilities, including equality and non-discrimination
The network of national and local equality advisers
Compulsory paternity leave, sustain of gender equality in sports
The extension of quota system
Segregation in education of Roma children under the colours of proximity concerns
Nullification of Article 52(d) of the Workers’ Statute that had been qualified by the CJEU as contrary to Directive 2000/78/EC
Newly elected Mayor unblocks access to LBGTQI-themed websites for employees
NCCD sanctions the mayor of Baia Mare for the failure to demolish the segregation wall previously found as amounting to discrimination
Paternity and co-parent childbirth leave
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
Segregation in education
Prime minister and other prominent politicians conduct concerted campaign questioning the justification of awarding damages to Roma pupils for decade-long segregation
Denial of tort compensation for unjustified loss of a social service
System of employment quotas
Ethnicity-based preferential treatment for Roma in school
Equal opportunities for disabled women
The president of the new Spanish government (January 2020) announces in the Parliament legal projects in the field of equal treatment and non-discrimination
New action plan to implement the National Strategy for People with Disabilities
The Spanish Constitutional Court 91/2019, applies in a judgement of 3 July 2019, the ruling issued by the CJEU in the Villar Laiz case but limits its application only to future matters
The Supreme Court of Spain has ruled in favour of an affirmative action by a university to grant senior professor positions to departments that have a lower percentage of women in these positions
Refusal to admit mother wearing the Islamic veil for activities in class
Systemic racial discrimination in employment against undocumented foreign workers on a construction site
The bill contains the necessary legislative adjustments due to the Directive (EU) 2016/2102 on barrier-free access to the websites and mobile applications of public authorities
New government action plan for persons with disabilities is now made public
Institutionalisation, Segregation
Disability discrimination of pupils with dyslexia by schools (local governments)
Use of religious symbols in schools
Perception of discrimination in Serbia
Termination of a pro-life advertising campaign on a city bus
Age discrimination by a private association challenged before a civil court
Discrimination on the ground of religion (Islamic Headscarf)
Reasonable accommodation at a municipal job centre
Equal opportunity
The rights of Norwegian residents to export three types of social benefits i.e. sickness benefit, work assessment allowance and care allowance to other EEA countries has been wrongfully applied in Norway since 2012, when the Regulation 883/2004 was implemented into Norwegian law, possibly since the entry into the EEC agreement in 1994
