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EU Article 13 Race and Employment Directive |
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The Government is committed to implementing the EU Article 13 Race and Employment Directives, which require EU member states to introduce legislation to outlaw unfair discrimination on the grounds of race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, disability and age in the fields of employment and training.
The Race Directive also applies to areas such as education and goods and services.
The consultation document Towards Equality and Diversity – The Way Ahead - published last autumn contained the Government's regulations to implement the race, religion or belief, sexual orientation and disability aspects of the directives. We intend to make equality legislation as coherent and easy to use as possible. We will publish our proposals for age by summer 2003.
Main Provisions of the Employment Directive
The Employment Directive requires Member States to introduce legislation outlawing discrimination and harassment in the fields of employment, occupation, vocational guidance and training, and also includes workers’, employers’ and professional organisations. It applies to both the public and private sectors.
The Race Directive
The Article 13 Race Directive
prevents discrimination on the ground of race in the work place,
as well as covering social protection, social advantage, goods and
services, housing, education in addition to vocational training,
and organisational membership. The Race Relations Act already covers
these areas but it is likely that some small technical changes will
need to be made to the existing law. (top)
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