Freedom of association as a general principle of international law with collective and individual connotations, protecting the right to form trade union organisations and the right of each person to determine without coercion whether or not to join the association - The right to collective barganing as an essential part of freedom of association with a gendered impact on labour rights, violence and discrimination in the workplace - Presence of gender roles and stereotypes, both in the public arena and in the private sector, standing as a barrier to the full exercise of women's labour rights

Candidates on compulsory maternity leave - Violation of the special protection of mothers and children

Equal treatment - Discrimination in the workplace on grounds of sexual orientation - Right not to be discriminated against on grounds of sexual orientation

Discrimination against women - Recruitment requirements in contrast to the principle of equality not taking into account the existence of the height difference generally found between men and women

Prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation — Public statements ruling out recruitment of homosexual persons

Indirect discrimination not to employ a woman for reasons of physical unfitness due to short stature – Recruitment requirements in contrast to the principle of equality not taking into account the existence of the height difference generally found between men and women

Equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security — Directive 79/7/EEC, Article 4, Prohibition of any discrimination on the ground of sex, Indirect discrimination — Part-time work, Calculation of retirement pension

Social policy, directive 2006/54/EC, equal treatment of men and women, access to employment and working conditions — Rejection of a candidate due to her pregnancy — Employee intervening in favour of that candidate, dismissal of that employee

Attempted act of same-sex indecency committed by a civil servant on male minors — Disciplinary sanction adopted in 1975, compulsory early retirement accompanied by a reduction in the pension entitlement — Discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, effects of the application of Directive 2000/78/EC on the disciplinary sanction, calculation of the retirement pension paid

Less favourable treatment of part-time workers compared to full-time workers as regards their conditions of employment – National legislation fixing a maximum duration of fixed-term employment that is longer for part-time workers than for fulltime workers – Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation, concept of ‘indirect discrimination’ on grounds of sex 

Discrimination on grounds of sex for different maximum retirement age limit between women and men - Maximum retirement age limit for dance workers

Maternity allowance - Possibility of cumulating the maternity allowance of the self-employed mother with the days off taken by the employed father

Principle of non-discrimination - Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006: “it is also appropriate to make express provision for the protection of the employment rights of women on maternity leave and in particular their right to return to the same or an equivalent post, to suffer no detriment in their terms and conditions as a result of taking such leave and to benefit from any improvement in working conditions to which they would have been entitled during their absence”

Different treatment of women justified on maternity grounds - Prohibition of dismissal on grounds of marriage applies only to the female employee

Conditions for recognition of change of gender — National legislation under which such recognition is subject to the annulment of any marriage entered into before that change of gender — Refusal to grant a person who has changed gender a State retirement pension as from the pensionable age for persons of the gender acquired

Social policy, equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation —National rules providing for the temporary possibility for performing artists having reached retirement age to continue to perform until the age previously laid down for entitlement to a pension, fixed at 47 years old for women and 52 years old for men

Directive 92/85/EEC, Articles 4, 5 and 7, protection of the safety and health of workers, worker who is breastfeeding, night work, shift work performed in part at night — Risk assessment of her work, prevention measures, challenge by the worker concerned — Discrimination on grounds of sex

Female employees of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism - Retirement at the age of 65 of female workers who have fulfilled the prerequisites for receipt of a pension by virtue of having reached the age of 61 and having accumulated twenty years of contributions on or before 31 December 2011, whereas male workers in identical employment circumstances will retire at the age of 66 years and three months/seven months

Discrimination against women - Recruitment requirements in contrast to the principle of equality not taking into account the existence of the height difference generally found between men and women

Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation — Competition for entry to the police school of a Member State — Law of that state imposing a minimum physical height requirement on all candidates for admission to that competition