Equal Treatment Policy
The Equal Treatment Directives of the European Union were the Council of the European Union decided. This involves a large number of directives on equal treatment that have been implemented in Germany in the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) and in Austria in the Equal Treatment Act (GlBG 2004) .
target
The aim is to implement the principle of equal treatment of all people and genders with regard to access to employment, vocational training and career advancement, as well as with regard to working conditions and corporate social security systems.
Individual guidelines
Secondary sources of EU equal treatment law are for example:
- Directive 2000/43 / EC (Anti-Racism Directive)
- Directive 2000/78 / EC (Equal Treatment Framework Directive)
- Directive 2004/113 / EC (directive on access to goods and services)
- Directive 2006/54 / EC (Equal Treatment Directive)
- Directive 75/117 / EEC (Equal Pay Directive)
Methods of implementation
On the basis of discrimination definitions , among other things, the aim is to facilitate evidence for those affected and to initiate “effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions” in the event of violations of the principle of equal treatment. The Equal Treatment Directives are not only intended to prohibit discrimination, but to eliminate it effectively.
history
In the "Official Journal of the European Communities" of February 14, 1976 it is stated that the Council of the European Communities "based on the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community " and a. "In accordance with the opinion of the European Parliament", within a "social policy action program", "has set as one of the priorities the implementation of actions" aimed at creating equal conditions for men and women with regard to access to employment, vocational training and occupation Promotion as well as with regard to working conditions including pay. ”Reference is also made to Directive 75/117 / EEC of 10 February 1975, in which“ the application of the principle of equal pay for men and women ”was legally prescribed . In April 1976, in the Defrenne judgment , the European Court of Justice took the position "that the principle of equal pay for men and women has direct effect."
The directive is called the "principle of equal treatment".
See also
Web links
- Essential legal acts of the EU in the field of equal treatment and anti-discrimination Website of the Austrian Ombud for Equal Treatment, accessed on October 18, 2019
- Ulrike Jäger: Gender Equality Policy in the European Union ifo Schnelldienst 19/2008, pp. 30–33
- Nicola Countouris, Mark Freedland: The personal scope of the EU directives on gender equality. Executive summary European Commission, Directorate-General for Justice 2012
- Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (publisher): Summary of selected ECJ rulings on anti-discrimination law from 2000 as of September 13, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency: The Equal Treatment Directives of the European Union. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
- ↑ cf. Anna Śledzińska ‐ Simon: The EU legal framework for equal treatment (no year), p. 7 f.
- ↑ Official Journal of the European Communities: COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 9 February 1976 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women with regard to access to employment, vocational training and career advancement and working conditions (76/207 / EEC). Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
- ^ Court of Justice of the European Union: Presentation. Equal treatment and social rights. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
- ↑ European Union: The History of the European Union - 1976. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
