Tweet
EURO COURT FINES TURKEY 10,000 EUROS FOR GENDER DISCRIMINATION
13:18, 03 Dec 2014
The European Court of Human Rights held Dec. 2 that Turkey was to pay
Emel Boyraz 10,000 euros because of her dismissal from public sector
employment, a state-run electricity company, on the grounds of gender,
the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Boyraz had worked as a security officer for almost three years
before being dismissed in March 2004 because she was not a man and
had not completed military service. The court decided by six votes
to one that there had been a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of
discrimination) in conjunction with Article 8 (right for respect to
private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
It also unanimously decided that there had been a violation of the
right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time.
The court concluded that Turkey should pay 10,000 euros to Poyraz in
respect of non-pecuniary damage.
In the court's opinion, the mere fact that security officers had
to work night shifts and in rural areas, in addition having to use
firearms and physical force under certain conditions, had not in
itself justified any difference in treatment between men and women.
Moreover, the reason for Boyraz's dismissal had not been her inability
to assume such risks or responsibilities, there having been nothing to
indicate that she had failed to fulfil her duties, but the decisions
of Turkish administrative courts.
The court also considered that the administrative courts had not
substantiated the grounds for the requirement that only male staff
could be employed as security officers in the branch of the state-run
electricity company.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/12/03/euro-court-fines-turkey-10000-euros-for-gender-discrimination/
From: Baghdasarian
13:18, 03 Dec 2014
The European Court of Human Rights held Dec. 2 that Turkey was to pay
Emel Boyraz 10,000 euros because of her dismissal from public sector
employment, a state-run electricity company, on the grounds of gender,
the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Boyraz had worked as a security officer for almost three years
before being dismissed in March 2004 because she was not a man and
had not completed military service. The court decided by six votes
to one that there had been a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of
discrimination) in conjunction with Article 8 (right for respect to
private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
It also unanimously decided that there had been a violation of the
right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time.
The court concluded that Turkey should pay 10,000 euros to Poyraz in
respect of non-pecuniary damage.
In the court's opinion, the mere fact that security officers had
to work night shifts and in rural areas, in addition having to use
firearms and physical force under certain conditions, had not in
itself justified any difference in treatment between men and women.
Moreover, the reason for Boyraz's dismissal had not been her inability
to assume such risks or responsibilities, there having been nothing to
indicate that she had failed to fulfil her duties, but the decisions
of Turkish administrative courts.
The court also considered that the administrative courts had not
substantiated the grounds for the requirement that only male staff
could be employed as security officers in the branch of the state-run
electricity company.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/12/03/euro-court-fines-turkey-10000-euros-for-gender-discrimination/
From: Baghdasarian