Case 1/2007 - An employer had not subjected a woman to gender-based differential treatment in connection with her application for a position as bus driver.
Case 2/2007 - The appellant’s claim that he had been subjected to differential treatment or harassed on the basis of ethnicity did not succeed. Assessment pursuant to sections 4 and 5 of the Anti-Discrimination Act and earlier provisions of the Working Environment Act.
Case 3/2007 - A job advertisement containing an age criterion was in breach of the equal treatment chapter of the Working Environment Act
Case 4/2007 - The appointment of a man to a position as pilot boat driver was not in breach of section 4, second paragraph, cf. section 3, of the Gender Equality Act. However, the female applicant who was passed over should have been ranked as no. 2 among the candidates recommended for the position, not no. 3.
Case 5/2007 - The Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs did not engage in differential treatment based on gender in appointing the Director General of the Norwegian Coastal Administration.
Case 6/2007 - The municipality attached importance to maternity leave when considering applications for a nurse’s position in the home nursing service. This was in breach of section 4, second paragraph, cf. section 3, of the Gender Equality Act.
Case 7/2007 - The sellers did not engage in differential treatment on the basis of ethnicity in connection with the sale of a housing property.
Case 8/2007 - The municipality did not engage in differential treatment on the basis of gender in allocating a regular general practitioner’s licence.
Case 9/2007 - The municipality did not engage in differential treatment on the basis of gender in connection with the appointment of a nurse.
Case 10/2007 - A school did not treat a complainant differently on the grounds of maternity leave in connection with an appointment to a temporary teaching post.
Case 11/2007 - The decision of a housing cooperative to refuse the complainant permission to mount a satellite dish did not constitute indirect discrimination under the Anti-Discrimination Act.
Case 12/2007 - A complaint regarding the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud’s dropping of a case was not upheld. The Ombud had applied section 3, fifth paragraph, third sentence, of the Anti-Discrimination Ombud Act. The case concerned the question of whether the Ministry of Children and Equality’s circular number Q 17/07 (containing guidelines for making grants to non-governmental organisations working in the fields of family affairs, women’s rights and gender equality in 2007) contravened the Anti-Discrimination Act.
Case 13/2007 - The complainant did not succeed in her claim of differential treatment and harassment on the grounds of ethnicity. The claim was assessed under sections 4 and 5 of the Anti-Discrimination Act and provisions of an earlier Working Environment Act.
Case 14/2007 - Refusal of a publicly-funded work experience place did not constitute unlawful differential treatment on the basis of language, ethnicity or religion. Assessment under section 4 of the Anti-Discrimination Act.
Case 15/2007 - The failure of a county authority to conclude a new per capita agreement with a woman dentist because she was on maternity leave contravened section 3 of the Gender Equality Act.
Case 16/2007 - An insurance policy holder was not discriminated against on the basis of ethnicity or national origin when his insurance claim was specially assessed. The case was considered under section 4 of the Anti-Discrimination Act.
Case 17/2007 - A health enterprise’s determination of an non-unionised employee’s pay changes and the fixing of different dates for the pay changes to take effect for the unorganised employee than for his unionised colleagues were not in breach of the prohibition of discrimination in chapter 13 of the Working Environment Act.
Case 18/2007 - Section 3 of the Equality Act sets aside parts of section 10-2 of the Regulations on Labour Market Schemes, making it unlawful to stop the waiting benefit of a woman who had been on sick leave due to pregnancy in a former employment relationship.
Case 19/2007 - The applicant for a position as a German teacher in an upper secondary school was not discriminated against on the basis of language. The case was considered under section 4 of the Anti-Discrimination Act.
Case 20/2007 - Rejection of an appeal against the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud’s summary dismissal of a case concerning possible age-based discrimination in a pension scheme.
Case 21/2007 - An employer had not fulfilled his duty pursuant to section 13-5 of the Working Environment Act to adapt working conditions to meet the needs of an employee with ADHD.
Case 22/2007 - Sellers were discriminated against on the grounds of ethnicity in connection with the sale of a residential property.
Case 23/2007 - The Supervisory Council for Legal Practice did not include parental leave reserved for one gender when calculating work experience required in order to be granted a licence to practice law. This was in breach of the ban on direct discrimination in section 3 second paragraph no 2 of the Gender Equality Act.
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