Legal developments
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
The extent of the employer’s obligation to provide reduced working hours as a reasonable accommodation
Women on Company Boards; new legislation
Limitations on the wearing of religious dress in public functions
Gender equality, women on boards
Promotion of Equal Rights
Positive Action
Representation of women on steering boards
New legislation concerning Harassment / changes in the Labour Code and in the General Legislation for Civil Servants and Public Employees
Women on non-executive company boards
Compatibility of the eligibility condition of prior residence in the Republic-controlled areas of Cyprus for access to welfare with the principles of non-discrimination and the best interests of the child
Whether a provision in the pensions law which provides for lower amounts to be paid to persons retiring at 61, compared to persons retiring at 63 falls within the scope of Directive 2000/78 and whether it can be justified by a legitimate aim
Whether it is possible to order effective measures to combat school segregation, such as the effective closing down of a segregated school
Arrangement for compensation of self-employed women who did not receive a maternity benefit
Statutory report on diversity
The Expert Commission for the assessment of the 2007 Anti-discrimination Federal Acts delivered its first annual report
The Belgian Court of Cassation rendered its judgment in the Achbita case following the ruling of the Court of Justice concerning the ban of wearing religious symbols at work
Maximum age as an occupational requirement not discriminatory according to the Belgian Council of State
Legislative Bill voted by the Brussels Parliament allowing new methods for labour inspectors to struggle against discrimination on the job market
Criminal offences, Hate speech
Court found violation of prohibition of discrimination and victimisation for dismissing an employee with disability
The legal regime of prevention, prohibition and fight against discrimination on the ground of race/ethnic origin, nationality, ancestry and territory of origin
Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities
Discrimination of Roma children in education
Specification of the implementation of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Ex officio investigation started following testing recording becomes viral
Discrimination in the field of social protection against legal resident third-country workers, who pay the same contributions to insurance agencies as Greek citizens
Rights of persons with disabilities
Gender based actuarial factors
The Ombudsman finds that the policy of excluding foreign spouses of Cypriots from welfare entitlement as dependents of the applicant was unlawful
