Legal developments
New powers of enforcement for the Labour Inspectorate in employment matters
Balancing freedom of speech with prohibition to discriminate and the right to dignity
Gender equality, gender pay gap, parental leave, labour market participation
Meaning of ‘provision, criterion or practice’ in disability discrimination
Victims of gender based violence, protection of victims of harassment and sexual harassment, maternity, support for family caregivers
Statutory discrimination on the ground of nationality, i.e. indirect discrimination on the ground of origin, throughout the claimants’ career
Improvement of parental benefits
Criminal liability of a Mayor for refusal to register Roma children in elementary school
Government policies concerning women and gender related issues.
Persons with disability are hampered in their access to vote based on obsolete legislation
Since 2013 the Government has promised to take radical steps in order to eliminate the gender pay gap. This has resulted in a tool to measure the gap which has been made publicly accessible to all employers
Unsuccessful application for employment, despite relevant and applicable positive action measures for Roma
The Court of Appeals in Gdańsk has ordered the owner of a restaurant to pay 2.000,- PLZ (EUR 250) in damages, for discriminating a breastfeeding mother.
On 16 February, UNIA published its Diversity Barometer on Education
Federal Constitutional Court decision on gender identity
Newly elected state parliament of North Rhine-Westfalia withdraws innovative quota regulation for the civil service
Estonia ratified the Istanbul Convention on 20 September 2017
Gender-based violence
Court decision on equal opportunity commissioners
New Act on Protection against Domestic Violence adopted and entered into force
Violence against women, domestic violence
Access to education of persons with disability in Turkey
Whether the subsidiary of the municipality discriminated against the LGBTQ Sport Club on the basis of its members’ sexual orientation and gender identity
Social housing criteria deemed as discriminatory following ex officio NCCD investigation
Promotion of measures for a better work-life balance
Judgment by the Administrative High Court on less favourable treatment of an employee because of parental leave
Multiple discrimination against Romani women in public discourse.
Ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention)
Political representation of women
Ban on covering the face in educational institutions without providing for a religious exemption
New proposed law on anti-discrimination put up for public debate
The Brussels’ Ordinance setting up new anti-discrimination tools on the job market has been published
Maternity protection
New social security benefits for self-employed workers with family responsibilities
Gender equality, collective agreements
Equal opportunities
The wearing of a beard interpreted as a religious sign in the public service
Whether the fact that no accessible online cash registers are available in the Hungarian market is a violation of the rights of those blind or visually impaired persons who would be required to use them in relation to the services or goods they offer
Checking only a Roma passenger’s train ticket on the railroad platform amounts to discrimination
Dental clinic following guidelines from National Health and Welfare Board needing to defend their actions in an indirect discrimination proportionality test
The new Ombudsman rejects complaints for racial discrimination
Whether a psychosocial impairment constituted a disability
Reform of Labour relations and rules relating to compensation of dismissal
Indirect discrimination
Freedoms of assembly and association of LGBTs in Turkey
Assessing the risk of discrimination in access to housing of young people throughout the national territory in combination with multiple factors
Criminal Liability of Social Housing corporations’ collegial commissions of attribution
Whether the request of a client that an IT engineer intervening on site dress in a neutral manner and remove an Islamic veil can be held to be a genuine and determining occupational requirement
Scope of indemnification of the annulment of a dismissal based on discrimination on the ground of age
A medical diagnosis is not necessary to establish that an employee has a disability at the time of dismissal
