The new EU directive for more salary transparency - impact on Switzerland, in: Jusletter of August 14.

2019

Non-discriminatory measurement of equal pay - Discrimination potential of individual explanatory factors for measuring equal pay between women and men at the macroeconomic level, in: Jusletter of November 25, 2019, p. 1-87 (together with Camill Oberhausser).

Eurolohn: Appointment to the prohibition of discrimination is an abuse of law (Critical comments on the judgment of the Federal Supreme Court 4A_230/2018 of January 15, 2019), in: Jusletter of May 20, 2019, pp. 1-16.

Unequal premiums based on nationality, age and gender in motor vehicle liability insurance - a discrimination problem?, in: HAVE 1/2019, p. 16-30 (together with Luca Vecchi and Camill Oberhausser).

Age discrimination - from employment to dismissal, in ARV/DTA 1/2018, p. 1-12.

Is there a right to laziness?, in: Jusletter of February 29, 2016.

Different ways to fight against unfair dismissal on the grounds of HIV/AIDS Status, European Labor Law Journal, Volume 6 (2015), No. 4, 373 ff.

The underestimated importance of the ECHR and the case law of the ECtHR for labor law, in: AJP 12 (2015) 1671 et seq.

Fathers are not entitled to maternity compensation - A comment on the judgment of the Federal Supreme Court (BGE 140 I 305), in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Sozialversicherung und berufliche Vorsorge (SZS) 59 (2015) 152 ff.

2014

Abusive dismissal - a total of 2 months' wages and a reduced party fee as compensation (comments on the judgment of the High Court of the Canton of Zurich of January 9, 2014 (LA130001-O/U), in: Pflegerecht 4 (2014) 238 ff. (together with: Zimmermann Anita).

2013

Disability-free access to education - obligations of higher education institutions, in: Jusletter of
April 15, 2013 (together with: Copur Eylem).

2012

The HIV test in the light of human rights, in: Jusletter of November 26, 2012.

2011

Prohibition of gender-specific premiums in insurance contracts (comments on the judgment of the European Court of Justice of March 1, 2011, RS C-236/09
(preliminary ruling procedure)), in: HAVE 2 (2011) 153 ff.

The criminal law treatment of HIV/AIDS in Switzerland in the light of HIV/AIDS prevention concerns: Status quo, reflection, conclusions, Part 1: Swiss case law: empirical and dogmatic analysis / Part 2: Comparative law, human rights context and prevention policy aspects, in: AJP 10 (2009) 1261-1287 and 1288-1314 (together with: Mösch Payot Peter).

Perceived Discrimination against Diabetics in the Workplace and in Work-Related Insurances in Switzerland, in
Insurances in Switzerland, in: Swiss Medical Weekley 139 (2009) 103 ff. (together with: Caplazi Alexandra/Keller Ulrich/ Iselin Hans-Ulrich/Ruiz Juan/Puder Jardena J./Nebiker-Pedrotti Piera M.).

Fundamental rights limits of the activating welfare state, in: SozialAktuell 6 (2009) 29 ff.

Multiple discrimination: Not yet a subject in Swiss doctrine and practice, in: Tangram 6, 23 (2009) 45 ff.

Judgment of the Federal Administrative Court of July 15, 2008 (Discrimination in the
Maturitätsprüfung), in: AJP 1 (2009) 110 ff. (together with: Petrik Andreas).

2008

Maruko case: Entitlement to a survivor's pension for partners from a same-sex partnership, in: European Law Reporter 1 (2008) 455 ff.

Law against HIV/AIDS discrimination, experiences and concepts from different countries, in: MedReport 4 (2008) 2.

Effects of the General Equal Treatment Act on employment law, in: ARV 3 (2007) 133 ff.

Employment law prohibition of discrimination against European migrant workers under
Community law and the law on the free movement of persons with Switzerland, in: ZESAR 6 (2007) 25 ff.

Refusal to take out supplementary insurance (discussion of judgment 5P.97/2006 of June 1, 2006), in: HAVE 1 (2007) 46 ff.

The labor and social insurance law aspects of the Federal Act on the Protection of Human Beings from Abuse in Genetic Engineering, in: AJP 1 (2007) 79 ff.

2006

On the need for a pending and broad understanding of discrimination,
in: European Law Reporter 9 (2006) 383 ff.

Significance of ECJ case law for equal treatment claims under employment law in accordance with the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons, in: Jusletter of August 14, 2006.

Discussion of the Mangold case, ECJ, Case C-144/04, in: AJP 7 (2006) 888 et seq.

Discussion of Tribunal de Prud'Hommes de l'arrondissement de Lausanne, Arrêt du 10 octobre and Arbeitsgericht Zürich, 2. Abteilung, of January 13, 2006, in: ARV 1 (2006) 23 ff.

Employment discrimination, in: Portmann Wolfgang/Aubert Gabriel/Müller Roland A./Rudolph Roger, Festschrift für Adrian von Kaenel, Zurich/Geneva 2022, pp. 363-380 (together with Pia Meier).

2020

Religion in the private employment relationship, in: Stöckli Andreas/Kühler Anne/Hafner Felix (eds.), Recht, Religion und Arbeitswelt, Zurich/Basel/Geneva 2020, pp. 76-106.

2017

Legal research on discrimination, in: Scherr Albert/El-Mafaalani Aladin/Yüksel Emine Gökçen (eds.), Handbuch Diskriminierung, Berlin 2017, pp. 101-115.

2009

Human rights and protection against discrimination as the basis of HIV policy, in:
Lohrenscheit Claudia (ed.), Sexual self-determination as a human right, Baden-Baden 2009, p. 217 ff.

2014

Diskriminierungsrecht, Handbuch für Jurist_innen, Berater_innen und Diversity-Expert_innen, Bern 2014 (together with Naguib Tarek, Eylem Copur and Melanie Studer): Contributions: Discrimination protection law: what we mean by it, pp. 3-36 (together with: Naguib Tarek); International and constitutional law foundations, pp. 37-79; Work and livelihood, together with Melanie Studer, pp. 121-161; Health, together with Tiziana Fuchs, pp. 201-220; Discrimination protection law: achievements and criticism, together with Tarek Naguib, pp. 445-479.

2009

Freedom of contract, equal treatment and discrimination in private law employment relationships, international and constitutional law framework and significance of European Community law, Bern 2009 (habilitation thesis).

2007

Law against HIV/AIDS discrimination in the employment relationship, Bern 2007 (together with: Caplazi Alexandra/Suter Caroline).

2003

Aids, Law and Money, An examination of the legal and economics of people with HIV/Aids, Zurich 2003 (together with: Müller Kucera Karin/Spycher Stefan).

2017

Anti-Black Racism: Legal investigation into the problem and need for action on behalf of the Federal Committee against Racism FCR, Basel/Winterthur, 2017 (together with: Naguib Tarek Nadine Bircher Nadine, Licci Sara, Schärer Salome).

Report on the subject of "Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and discrimination: connection between the partial lifting of the ban on preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and the risk of social discrimination" commissioned by the Federal Office of Public Health, Basel/Wintethur, 2016 (together with: Naguib Tarek).

Protection against Discrimination on Grounds of Chronic Diseases, commissioned by the German Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (FADA), 2013 (together with: Naguib Tarek).

2009

Legal opinion "Discrimination against diabetes patients", commissioned by the
Swiss Diabetes Association, Winterthur 2009 (co-worker: Petrik Andreas/Inderhees Gitta).

2019

Christina Nydegger, Gender equality processes in Switzerland, Zurich/St. Gallen 2019.

2025

Protection against racial discrimination in private law - analysis and proposed solutions, Federal Committee against Racism FCR, 2025 Bern.

Age discrimination in public administration: Rights and obligations of young and old employees and employers, Schulthess Forum, Öffentliches Personalrecht 2024, Die öffentliche Verwaltung und die Generationenfrage, Zurich

Age discrimination in the employment relationship - legal aspects, Bern University for Senior Citizens, Bern

La discrimination des travailleuses et travailleurs âgés: droit de l'Union européenne et droit suisse, colloque du Pôle Berenstein, Université de Genève, Geneva

Equal pay for work of equal value - why it is also worthwhile for the public sector to reflect on pay systems, symposium on equal pay, Bern

08. December 2020

Protection against age discrimination in employment law, lecture series "Growing old and being old - from prehistory to today", University of Basel

14. November 2019

L'égalité salariale en Suisse. Beaucoup a été fait, bien plus encore doit être fait!, Colloque international Egalité Professionnelle, Nouvelle Aquitaine, Bordeaux

18. June 2019

Protection against discrimination in the insurance sector, ASIM, University Hospital Basel

06. December 2018

Age discrimination in the public sector, Conference on public personnel law at the University of St. Gallen, Grand Casino Lucerne

16. May 2018

What does/can anti-discrimination law do and what does it not do?, Law & Robots Workshop 2018, University of Basel

26./March 27, 2018

The labor law protection of older employees, Senior Citizens University of the University of Basel

15. March 2018

Age discrimination - from employment to termination/termination, Employment Law Conference Generations in the Workplace, ZHAW, Zurich

20. June 2017

Protection against discrimination as the limit of risk assessment, ASIM event, Basel

26. August 2016

Discrimination in the field of labor Law - What legal instruments?, Lecture at the NCCR Summer School, University of Neuchatel

08. March 2016

HIV-related termination of employment relationships: The importance of human rights, Bern University Hospital, HIV Tuesday Club, Bern

10. February 2016

"Discrimination against people with disabilities in working life", Evaluation of the Federal Act on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (BehiG) and the impact of the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Asim training event, University Hospital Basel, Basel.

30. October 2015

The scope of the UN CRPD in Switzerland, Conference 2015 Disability Equality Law, University of Basel, Basel

26. June 2015

Dismissal on the grounds of HIV/AIDS status. A reflection with reference to three court decisions at different levels, International Labor law research Conference, Amsterdam

23. January 2015

Discrimination and protection against discrimination in working life in Switzerland, Conference International Commission of Jurists, St. Gallen

29. September 2014

Remedies and sanctions in discrimination cases, Seminar "EU anti-discrimination law", Academy of European Law, Trier

12. September 2013

Discrimination protection and equal treatment law, How fair and effective is equal treatment law? A critical appraisal of discrimination protection law in Switzerland, 2nd Discrimination Law Conference of the Center for Social Law, ZHAW, Winterthur

2. July 2013

Age discrimination in the world of work: A legal stocktaking, Seminar Aktuelle Probleme des Arbeitsrecht, Zurich

2. September 2011

Access to justice in gender equality and anti-discrimination law, conference "Der Kampf ums Recht", Rechtssoziologiekongress, Vienna

1. September 2011

Die Schweiz im internationalen Umfeld des Diskriminierungsschutzes, Diskriminierungsschutzrecht in der Schweiz: Aktuelle Debatte und Ausblick, 1st Discrimination Law Conference of the Center for Social Law, ZHAW, Winterthur

28. October 2010

News on the protection against discrimination in employment law - with a sideways glance at developments in European law, St. Gallen Employment Law Conference, University of St. Gallen, Zurich

9. March 2009

Protection against discrimination - Switzerland on the sidelines?, lecture at the general meeting of the Democratic Lawyers, Basel

12. November 2008

Multiple Discrimination: State of the Discussion in Switzerland, Conference on the subject of Multiple Discrimination, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Olten

6. September 2008

Discrimination law as a welfare state alternative (?), How does law work?, Congress of the German-speaking Association for the Sociology of Law, Lucerne

14.- March 16, 2008

HIV / Aids discrimination in context, Law against HIV / Aids discrimination in the employment relationship: Selected findings, 12th Munich Aids Days, Berlin

4. December 2007

Protection against discrimination and HIV/AIDS, lecture series of the German Institute for Human Rights, Berlin

27. September 2007

Data protection and protection against discrimination in the new Federal Act on Human Genetic Testing (GUMG) - a role model?, Conference "Data protection in the health and insurance sector" of the Institute for Legal Practice of the University of St. Gallen, Grand Casino Lucerne

22. September 2006

Development of gender equality law in Switzerland and Europe, Wage-Quota-Career, Conference on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Gender Equality Act GlG, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Olten

2. June 2005

Equal opportunities for diversity: Diversity from an Employment Law Perspective, Conference "Gender and Diversity Management" - June 2, 2005 University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Solothurn

Comment on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Pärli, Kurt

Ongoing

Report on the discriminatory potential of individual explanatory factors for measuring equal pay between women and men

Pärli, Kurt

Completed

18. December 2019

Contribution to the workshop Racism in everyday working life of the trade union syna on Migrants' Day on December 18, 2019

12. December 2019

Article in the research magazine UNI NOVA on age discrimination against employees

05. December 2017

Report on the subject of "Anti-black racism: legal investigation into the problem and need for action"

Fischer Bettina

The introduction of equal pay analysis into the Gender Equality Act

Gass Jeannine

The relationship between two concepts: Disability as a concept of social insurance law and disability as a concept of protection against discrimination under constitutional and international law and the Disability Equality Act

Henny Lukas

Parental and disability discrimination protection in the labor market in an international context

Zwick Seraina

Health insurance cover for undocumented migrants: areas of tension between health policy and migration policy interests

Kämpf Christina

Discrimination potentials of the concept of disability and the IV-specific definition and clarification of work ability in disability insurance