Right to leave for employed mothers after the birth of a child – Possible use by an employed mother or an employed father – Non-employed mother who is not covered by a State social security scheme – No right to leave for employed father

Directive 76/207/EEC, equal treatment for male and female workers & Directive 96/34/EC – Framework Agreement on Parental Leave – Abolishment of officials’ posts due to national economic difficulties, assessment of a female worker who took parental leave as compared to workers who remained in active service – Dismissal at the end of parental leave, indirect discrimination

Sexual harassment in the workplace - Harassment attributed to the hierarchical superior

Maternity and childhood, protection of working mothers – Adoption and pre-adoptive fostering of a child - Arrangements for payment of maternity allowance for a period of three months following the time the child enters the family home

Compulsory maternity leave - Deteriorating working and personal situation - Obligation to work in unlivable conditions in a degraded place

Working mothers – Hypothesis of premature birth and admission of the newly born child to a public or private hospital – Right of the working mother to benefit from all or part of the mandatory period of leave to which she is entitled from the time the child enters the family home, upon request and where compatible with her state of health attested by medical documentation

Occupational pension scheme in the form of a supplementary retirement pension for former employees of a local authority and their survivors – Method of calculating that pension favouring married recipients over those living in a registered life partnership – Discrimination based on sexual orientation

Equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security – Exclusion from entitlement to the compensatory supplement of pensioners whose income, including that of the spouse forming part of their household, exceeds that standard amount – Indirect discrimination against women

Maternity allowance - Right of the self-employed father to receive maternity allowance in place of the biological mother - Alleged unjustified unequal treatment between self-employed fathers and mothers and between self-employed and employed fathers

Protection of female workers – Maternity allowance – Alleged violation of the principles of maternity and child protection and the principle of the protection of working mothers

Equal treatment for male and female workers –Right to leave for employed mothers – Possible use by an employed mother or an employed father 

Equality before the law without distinction of sex - Possibility for all citizens, of both sexes, to have equal access to public and elected offices in equal shares 

Protection of working mothers – Termination of pregnancy before the 180th day from the beginning of gestation - Dismissal of the female employee because of regulatory legislation excluding from maternity protection pregnancy that ended before one hundred and eighty days from the beginning of gestation

Survivors’ benefits under a compulsory occupational pensions scheme – Refusal because the persons concerned were not married – Discrimination based on sexual orientation

Directive 92/85/EEC, Measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding – Meaning of ‘pregnant worker’; prohibition of dismissal of pregnant workers during the period from the beginning of their pregnancy to the end of the maternity leave − Woman dismissed where, at the date she was given notice of her dismissal, her ova had been fertilised in vitro, but not yet transferred to her uterus

Article 8 – Dismissal of a probation officer working with sex offenders by his employer for his involvement in BDSM-related activities and performing in fetish clubs

Protection of pregnant women, Directive 92/85/EEC, Article 10, Prohibition on dismissal from the beginning of pregnancy to the end of maternity leave − Period of protection, decision to dismiss a female worker during that period of protection; notification and implementation of the decision to dismiss after the expiry of that period − Equal treatment for male and female workers

Equal treatment for men and women, protection of pregnant employees – Right to maternity leave – Effect on the right to obtain an alteration of the duration of ‘child-care leave’

Right to sexual orientation and identity - Anti-discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity rules - Measures regarding employment and social integration for persons who suffer discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity

Refusal to award a retirement pension at the age of 60 to a transsexual who has undergone male-to-female gender reassignment surgery