Today, the case of J.K vs the Polish public broadcasting company TP, in which the applicant is seeking compensation for discontinuing his freelance contract after he appeared in a YouTube video with his same-sex partner, is being heard for the first time at the Court of Justice of the European Union.
The CJEU held that statements made by a lawyer during a radio programme, saying he would never recruit a “homosexual” or wish to use the services of such persons, fall within the material scope of EU Directive 2000/78 (‘the anti-discrimination directive’).
We, a coalition of European networks of NGOs, urge the national governments to move towards swift transposition after the 13th June meeting of the EPSCO Council.
ILGA-Europe welcome the adoption of Zaborska Report on equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation which was supported by the European Parliament yesterday.
In this section you can find out how ILGA-Europe is working against discrimination and exclusion of LGBTI people in employment.
ILGA-Europe's statement regading the judgemnt of the Court of Justice of the European Union in case of Frédéric Hay v Crédit agricole mutuel de Charente-Maritime et des Deux –Sèvres.
On 10 May 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgement in the case of Jürgen Römer v Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg which dealt with the issue of whether lower supplementary retirement pension for registered same-sex partners compared to married partners constituted unequal treatment.
2nd edition, May 2007
Yesterday the Latvian Parliament voted to support an amendment to the country’s Labour Law to explicitly ban sexual orientation discrimination in employment.
Today the Latvian Parliament rejected a proposal to include sexual orientation in the Labour Law.
