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

Civil partnership – Correction of birth certificate and record by cancellation of the entry concerning the choice of surname

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

Attempted non-consensual termination of pregnancy - Acts unequivocally aimed at terminating the pregnancy in progress by causing injury

Same-sex couple – Registration in Italy of a foreign judgment attributing the parenthood to two men

Forced taking of the so-called ‘date rape drug’ - Sexual violence aggravated by the abuse of the victim's impaired psychophysical condition due to drug use

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

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, article 7, respect for private and family life — Directive 2011/95/EU, standards for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status, fear of persecution on grounds of sexual orientation — Assessment of facts and circumstances, recourse to an expert’s report, psychological tests

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

Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Possibility subject to modifications to the sex characteristics of the interested party – The modification of primary sexual characteristics through surgery is necessary

Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Identification of the interested party in the opposite gender even in the absence of the modifications to the primary sex characteristics