Non-discrimination policy in employment: practice of EU Member States

Abstract

This Master’s thesis gives the analysis under the legislative norms of the EU and of the Member States regarding the protection of individuals against the discrimination in their employment relations. In addition, it covers the scope of the discrimination that is prohibited regarding the potential/current/dismissed employees, and examines what are the types and grounds of the discrimination with the historical overview of their development and with the underlining the exceptions in which case the discrimination is allowed. Furthermore, this research revises the effectiveness of the enforcement of the rights of the employees (disregarding their status) in the national bodies with the using of the administrative/judicial/conciliation procedures. Also, it states about the necessity of the improvement in the providing the general information to the injured employees regarding the access to the justice. As regarding measures, there is the variety of them, but mostly they do not ensure the appropriate redress to the injured individuals in the employment relations, according to this the research states about the usefulness of obligation of such kind of the punishment to the wrongdoer that should be in the obligatory compensation in the discrimination cases in the employment relations.