Legal developments
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
Access of relatives of victims of discrimination to discrimination claims
Discriminatory treatment of candidate employees of Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Judgment of the Labour Court which recognises for the first time that the consequences of a cancer can, in certain circumstances, be constitutive of a disability which compels the employer to provide for reasonable accommodation
The responsibility of the manager to guarantee a working environment without harassment because of ethnic origin
National legislation permitting the dismissal of an employee by reason of absences from work resulting from illnesses linked to his disability produce indirect discrimination
Rights of people with disabilities
Discriminatory treatment of family members of third country national in the field of social protection
Permissibility of head scarf worn by trainee lawyer
Direct discrimination in access to employment
