Legal developments
Government initiative to create a public authority for gender equality
The Supreme Court's judgment of 24 January 2017, has recognized the right to full remuneration for an employee in the medical field, who, due to her pregnancy, could not perform night shifts. In a judgment of 10 January 2017, the Supreme Court recognized the right to receive full remuneration (including bonuses) from the first day of work after maternity leave.
Protection against discrimination beyond employment and occupation
Ban on face-covering clothes in public
Dismissal related to maternity and health
Extension of the scope of the equal treatment principle: addition of grounds and fields; extension of the Ombudsman`s powers; procedural provisions not improved nor incorporated into procedural codes; inadequate transposition of Directive 2014/54/EU
The Spanish Government withdrew subsidies for university education in gender equality and subsidies to small businesses to promote equality between men and women
Gender pay gap
Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities
Discrimination of Roma children in education
Implementation of policies and measures on integration of socially excluded members of Roma minority
Application of the rules of proof in a situation when the victim of discrimination is alone
Whether a municipal decree banning religious clothing and on expressing support for homosexual marriage is constitutional in Hungary
Establishing indirect discrimination
Adapting a workplace to accommodate religious belief
No implicit derogations apply to contracts agreed with workers with disability
The Parliament amended and afterwards adopted the new version (recast) of the Equal Opportunities Act for Women and Men
Amendments to the Penal Code to implement the Istanbul Convention concerning non-consensual sexual acts
The Federal Court of Justice decided upon damages for loss of earnings due to the inability of the responsible local authority to offer sufficient and appropriate public childcare
May a private employer ban the wearing of religious symbols at work
Justification of indirect age discrimination
Monitoring of discrimination cases concerning public sector on behalf of the competent Equality Body
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
Attempt to abrogate Romanian Anti-discrimination Law
The main French trade unions have challenged the admissibility of the candidacy to the professional elections of the National Corsican Trade Union because it promotes the ‘corsicanisation’ of hiring in Corsica
The Ombudsman in her capacity as independent mechanism for monitoring the implementation of the CRPD found that a legislative provision requiring ‘full capacity’ as a precondition for naturalization violates the CRPD
Ireland’s indigenous Travelling community has been recognised by the government as an ethnic minority
UNAR’s Financing activities and Responsibilities of its Director
Attempt to abrogate Romanian Anti-discrimination Law
Conference on Equality and the future employment market
Freedom of religion in employment
Employment
Company must accept that a Muslim woman use the hijab in positions of attention to the public
Increase in the number of women on company boards
Temporary incapacity for work can be considered as disability, as a ‘long-term’ limitation at the time of the allegedly discriminatory act
Legislative changes to reduce the period of parental leave for parents coming to Sweden with older children
Direct discrimination, harassment and victimisation in employment
Perception on Discrimination
Effectiveness of sanctions/ lack of compensation when age-discrimination has been established in a previous Supreme Court judgment
Extension of statutory regulation
