City court St. Petersburg approved the payout of 1.85 million RUB transgender woman Anastasia Vasilyeva, who was fired from the shop after the change of gender in documents, reports the LGBT group “Exit”. It is noted that it is Russia’s first known case where a transgender woman “openly defended in court their labour rights.”
In July 2017 Vasilyev dismissed pechatniy after she changed gender in the documents. At dismissal, the employer referred to a list of 456 occupations prohibited for women. The woman appealed to court with a claim of discrimination with the requirement to restore it on work and to pay 50 000 roubles of moral harm. In November the district court dismissed the case without seeing the discrimination. Thereafter, she appealed the decision to the city court, which in April 2018 left it unchanged.
the Presidium of the city court in December 2018 abolished all court decisions and sent the case for retrial. When considering new examination showed that Vasiliev can do the work of Pecatonica and no contraindications for that it does not. In the “Output” is explained by the fact that the list of prohibited jobs connected “only with the protection of maternity”.
Then, the court declared the dismissal unlawful, restoring Vasiliev in office and agreed to pay her 10 000 rubles as compensation of moral harm and 1.8 million rubles of compensation for the time of enforced idleness. Typography tried to appeal this decision, but the court left it unchanged.
