Legal developments
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
Direct discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation in reimbursement rules of vaccines against human papillomavirus – HPV
Sexism in public space
Supreme Court rules that the dismissal of a teacher, who did not want to work on a Saturday because of his religion, did not constitute indirect discrimination because of religion or belief
Annual Report of the Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination, describing a sharp decrease in complaints concerning racial or ethnic discrimination, and a rise in administrative offence proceedings
For the first time revenge pornography is formally criminalised as a distinct crime against sexual freedom
Gender equality
New Law
Committee of State and National Coordinator against Discrimination and Racism
Reasonable accommodation
Whether broadcasting a public-interest commercial regarding rainbow families in the 05.00-21.00 o’clock time slot can be banned on the basis of ‘child-protection’ arguments
Public annual report on the activity of the Defender of Rights for the year 2021
The Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions voices serious criticism regarding the independence of Hungary’s equality body, the Ombudsman, and downgrades it due to the lack of functional independence
Adoption of comprehensive legislation on equal treatment outside the labour market
Evaluation of the Federal anti-discrimination legislation by a Commission of Independent experts
Discriminatory criteria in social housing
Membership of the national equality body
Eastern High Court rules that differential treatment based on the legal criterion ‘immigrant or descendant from non-Western countries’ does not constitute discrimination based on ‘ethnic origin’
