The regional authorities, led by the pro-independence Catalan Republican Left (ERC), can in idea positive any city corridor discovered to have breached the norm up to €500,000.
In Catalonia this summer time, women will likely be allowed to go ‘topless’ in public swimming pools.
The Catalan authorities has despatched a letter to all municipalities to remind them that “prohibiting women from utilizing the services with a naked torso, referred to as ‘topless’, constitutes discrimination”.
It’s going to even be unlawful to discriminate towards women who go for “a swimsuit that covers extra elements of their physique”, such because the ‘burkini’ or full swimsuit.
The regional authorities, led by the pro-independence Catalan Republican Left (ERC), can in idea positive any city corridor discovered to have breached the norm up to €500,000.
Through the summer time of 2022, the Catalan authorities claims it obtained a number of complaints of discrimination in public swimming pools.
Because of this, it determined to ship the letter to the city halls final March, three months earlier than the opening of the pools and with sufficient time to change the laws.
The Catalan authorities insists that neither can a lady be banned from breastfeeding in a municipal swimming pool nor the entry of “any group due to their ethnic origin, similar to racialised teams of younger folks or gypsy households”.
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