Legal developments
Equal pay
Does the use of a requirement that, for a person to be eligible for inclusion in a job pool or access to a temporary job, he or she must have a separate main employment, constitute direct or indirect discrimination when applied to a person with a sickness benefit of 50% related to a disability?
Inadequate accessibility even outside of working life is a form of discrimination in Sweden. LW was refused access to a bus due to his wheelchair. The Equality Ombudsman did not take the case to court so LW turned to an NGO. The NGO took the case to court and won. This is one of the first cases where an NGO took on the full legal risks of enforcing the law
Education ministry’s responsibility for segregation in state-run school system
The state of affairs regarding segregation in the Hungarian system of public education
Indirect discrimination in access to education- misdiagnosis of Roma child being placed in special classes for children with intellectual disability, segregation of Roma children in education
Face covering clothing
Proposal to explicitly include protection against discrimination on the ground of sex characteristics, gender identity and gender expression into the General Equal Treatment Act and court decision on registration of an intersex condition
Composition of the Steering Board of the national equality body
How should courts distinguish between self-employed and employed status for the purposes of the coverage of the Equality Act 2010?
General duty of gradually realizing access for people with disabilities
The new approach of the ETA to reach an agreement between parties to a case could lead to more a satisfactory outcome in discriminatory cases than the application of legally stipulated sanctions
New report on unregistered migrants in Denmark
Equal treatment in employment training
Access to the profession of doctor in the National Health System without discriminatory treatment on ground of age
The fiscal legislation provides that the spouses are obliged to submit a joint income tax return
CRPD monitoring
Sanctioning by Greece of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
Danish parliament adopted new law prohibiting face covering in the public sphere
Recent legal anti-discrimination provisions
Danish parliament adopted new act prohibiting discrimination because of disability
Legal recognition of gender identity
The Human Rights Ombudsman Issues Its Twenty-Third Annual Report
Court case on sexual harassment by an employer. App. No: 556/11, the Industrial Tribunal Limassol.
The new Advocate of the Principle of Equality issues its second annual report
The new Act on Gender-Based Violence and Domestic Violence provides for the substantive articles of the Council of Europe Convention on prevention and combating of violence against women and domestic violence (‘Istanbul Convention’) to be enforceable as part of the Laws of Malta; to promote and protect the right of everyone; to repeal the Domestic Violence Act (Chapter 481 of the Laws of Malta) and the Act on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention (Chapter 532 of the Laws of Malta) and introduces amendments to various laws.
Activity report and statistical data
Elimination of all forms of discrimination
Constitutional Court Ruling on Article 25 of the Animal Protection Act (ZZZiv) in relation to ritual slaughtering
No conviction possible when the intent of incitation to racial hatred is not proven
Documenting the reality of discriminatory practices among law firms in France
Does the employer need to be aware of the link between disability and less favourable treatment?
Publication of the national equality body’s Annual report for 2017
Gender pay gap
Violation of the right to a fair trial within reasonable time in case of discrimination
Right to vote
MPs and NGOs criticise the new Ombudsman for failing to implement the institution’s equality mandate; and public row with Auditor General
Failure to ensure accessibility to public transportation for persons with disabilities. Politicization of the NCCD Steering Board leading to reversal of solid jurisprudence on accessibility
Equal Pay
Equal pay
A new bill on equal pay between women and men was registered in the Congress of Deputies on 24 October 2017. On 22 February 2018 the bill has been submitted by the Congress and it will be discussed over the next months
The Provincial Court of Navarra has ruled that sex without consent is not rape but sexual abuse, unless express and clear violence and intimidation has taken place
Discrimination in the area of delivery of public services
Reports on activities undertaken in previous years by the two institutions holding competences in relation to equality and non-discrimination
Positive discrimination
Judgment by the District Court The Hague on compensation for not extending an employment contract because of pregnancy
Occupational social security / Gender reassignment
Sexism in public space
Protection of female workers rights
Case of indirect pay discrimination
