In his youth, as is known, every second boy wants to be a firefighter. Or two out of three. In being a firefighter there is on the one hand a challenge and a risk, clearly defined in meaning and effect. But there is also a feeling and fulfillment of the mission of saving important worldly values ​​and helping others.

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Disability is one of the prohibited discriminatory criteria, pursuant to Directive 2007/78. The directive prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability but does not define the concept of disability. This situation obviously creates an area of discontinuity which is normally covered by detailed and very detailed national rules.

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It is about a rather strange judgement, which concerns a Polish employer. Sometimes the courts – not only the big ones, but also the smaller ones – have to assume the burden of explaining a regulation that is apparently obvious in its message and purpose.

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An article by Michał Tomczak in the Rzeczpospolita daily (Kadry i Płace).

These two judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union, issued in 2017, regarding the wearing of an Islamic headscarf by female employees gained considerable publicity, although, as is usually the case with publicity, it did not make much use of the understanding of the entire, rather subtle interpretation of European law made by the Court. It seems to me that the right-wing circles especially accepted the message from these judgments that they “finally took up their job”. This is, of course, a somewhat obscure simplification.

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