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La 4e de couverture indique : "Cet opuscule propose un état des lieux des connaissances sur la nature, la mesure et l’ampleur de la discrimination à l’embauche sur le marché du travail français. Il s’appuie sur les résultats d’une nouvelle étude destinée à explorer les sources de la discrimination observée. L’originalité de cette méthode est de présenter des CV portant des noms identifiés à des origines particulières (françaises, maghrébines...) et d’autres dont l’origine est considérée comme « inconnue » par les recruteurs potentiels. Les résultats montrent que la discrimination à l’embauche à l’encontre des candidats issus de l’immigration est ma...
The EC Directive establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation covers a number of grounds of discrimination including age. The EU's population is ageing, but there is much evidence that age discrimination is widespread. The Directive is a reaction to that and the consequent desire to encourage greater participation in the labour market by older workers. This is the first time that age discrimination has been made unlawful by the EU and, as a result, there are now laws in every Member State making such discrimination unlawful. The Directive, and much of the national legislation, however, treats age discrimination differently to the other grounds for unlawfu...
This treatise discusses in detail the types of sex discrimination, procedures for successful litigation, and the various remedies available to employees who have been discriminated against.
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This text provides an accessible guide to the complex area of disability discrimination. Designed with the employment law practitioner in mind and incorporating legislative changes and case law, this guide is a useful tool for those practising in the tribunal as well as those providing non-contentious advice.
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 imposed new duties on employers, trade organizations, service providers, property owners, educational bodies and public transport providers. It created new individual rights for disabled persons and opened up possibilities for new forms of litigation. Disability Discrimination: Law and Practice is the definitive guide to how this important legislation operates in practice in the UK. This new edition has been updated to take account of the many important developments in this area, including: new case law on the meaning of disability, and the employment and trade organization provisions in the Act; the prospective implementation of the remaining aspects o...
Examines the role of the law in combatting disability discrimination in the labour market and in promoting the employment rights of disabled workers.
Research report on employment-related sex discrimination in the UK - includes a literature survey; comments on labour legislation and judicial decisions relating to equal pay and equal opportunity; discusses the theoretical background, labour market segmentation, wage differentials, discriminatory recruitment and promotion, unequal access to educational opportunities and in plant training, marital status, low trade unionization, etc.; outlines employment policy implications. Graphs and references.
Critically examines discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at work and focuses on the inadequacies of the current law.