Legal developments
Different premiums for men and women for the voluntary health insurance
Violence against women
Whether a trans woman should be provided with access to women’s changing room at her workplace
The Hungarian government launched a complex set of policies aimed at increasing fertility rates
The ruling of the Supreme Court of 21 of June 2019, appeal number 396/2019, states that sexual assault in which the victim did not expressly opposed to the offenders given the intimidating situation must be qualified as rape (and not as simple sexual abuse)
New Government Programme promises amendments of gender equality law
Ireland’s national equality body has requested local government bodies to conduct a review of compliance with equality law obligations in the field of accommodation for the Traveller community
Was a policy of restricting housing to one religious community a proportionate form of positive action?
Victimisation
Civil and criminal liability of a Mayor for refusal to register Roma children in elementary school
Perceived disability
Segregation of Roma children in education
Gender equality in the business world and the labour market is still not achieved, as shown by two independent reports published in 2019
Protection against retaliation for witness of discrimination based on sex
In May 2018, a wave of teachers' strikes protesting against their low wages swept through Poland. In the ongoing public discussions on this subject, the discriminatory aspect of the strike was overlooked and the voice of female teachers was inaudible
Attitudes in the Norwegian population regarding discrimination issues, hate speech and the instruments of equality policy
No constitutional complaint against implementation of CJEU, IR v JQ
Balance between the prohibition of discrimination and freedom of thought, beliefs and views as well as economic freedom and freedom of transactions
Gender violence
Job accessibility
Substantive equality
Constitutional complaint against implementation of CJEU, Egenberger
Changes in adoption leave regulations
Burden of proof of claimants challenging the legality of differential treatment between employees resulting from collective and negotiated agreements
Shared parental leave (SPL) – is it sex discrimination to pay men less on SPL than women are paid on maternity leave?
The ultra-right party "Vox" adopts as one of its first measures in the Andalusian Parliament the inquiry about the qualification of specialists in gender violence contracted by the Andalusian Government
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
A man of South Asian origin complained that he was verbally abused and discriminated on grounds of racial origin by a security guard, and supermarket personnel. He complained to the Ombudsman
Competent court – civil as opposed to administrative
Discriminatory practice
New legislative Act creating a Federal Institute for the Protection and Promotion of Fundamental Rights
Limits to the dismissal of female employees in collective redundancy procedures and the respective remedies
New Law on Free Legal Aid, relevant for discrimination cases, adopted
Annual reports by the two national human rights institutions with an equality and non-discrimination mandate
New Law on Social Protection
New Law on Prevention and Protection against Discrimination adopted
A consultation document “Gender Balance in Parliament: Reform” was launched in order to receive proposals to challenge the under-representation of women in Parliament.
Access to interpretation in sign language of deaf persons before the Court
Parliament adopts ban on headscarves in primary schools
Cooperation between the equality bodies
Sanctions against a private company for the dismissal of a HIV positive employee
Supreme Court ruling on dismissal of office worker in flex-job and possible discrimination based on age and disability
Activity report and statistical data
Discrimination in the field of access to medical services
Law 99/2019 implementing Directive 79/7
Annual report of the Commissioner for Protection of Equality for 2018
New Regulations fixing conditions to adopt positive actions to remedy inequalities based on all grounds covered by the federal anti-discrimination legislation
Class actions, burden of proof
Discrimination in public sector recruitments on grounds of (national) origin
New rights-based legislation governing social services provision
