Norcous & Partners www.norcous.lt Overview The legal Acts of Lithuania outline the following types of age discrimination: direct discrimination, indirect discrimination and harassment. Direct discrimination shall be taken to occur when on the basis of the person’s age one person is treated less favourably than another, has been or would be treated in a comparable…
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Bronsgeest Deur Advocaten www.bd-advocaten.nl Overview The constitution of The Netherlands (article 1) contains a general prohibition on discrimination. This article forms the basis of all Equal treatment legislation in The Netherlands. As per 1 May, 2004, The Netherlands has implemented the 2000/78/EG directive by means of the “Equal Treatment in Employment (Age Discrimination) Act” (ETEA)…
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Prochazka Randl Kubr www.prk.cz Overview Discrimination in employment is prohibited by the Constitution of the Slovak Republic (Act No. 460/1992 Coll.) as well as by the Labour Code (Act No. 311/2001 Coll.) and the Anti-Discrimination Act (Act No. 365/2004 Coll.), which implements the EU’s anti-discrimination legislation. During the recruitment process, employers are obliged to observe…
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Castegnaro Cabinet d’avocats www.castegnaro.lu Overview At the moment, Directive 2000/78 has not been implemented in Luxembourg yet. The draft law n°5518[1] providing for its implementation states that: Direct and indirect discrimination Any direct or indirect discrimination on the ground age is forbidden. Direct discrimination shall be taken to occur where one person is treated less…
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Toffoletto e Soci www.toffoletto.it Overview Article 3 of the Italian Constitution introduces a general principle of equality, which forbids every form of discrimination. This principle has been enacted and specified through ordinary law and particularly towards age discrimination, with art. 8 of the Legge 20 maggio 1970, n. 300 that prohibits discriminative behaviour during recruitment…
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Expert employment lawyers at ius laboris, the leading alliance of specialist employment law, employee benefits and pensions law firms have analysed the status of age discrimination laws in 20 member states and expressed their expert opinion on the approach their courts would take in certain hypothetical cases. The survey was originally undertaken in May 2005…
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Soltysinski Kawecki & Szlezak www.skslegal.pl Overview Polish legislation prohibits “any discrimination” in the field of employment – direct and indirect discrimination, in particular with respect to age. Harassment is deemed a form of indirect discrimination. Encouragement to discriminate is also a form of indirect discrimination.Poland has a unitary system of national employment law. No local…
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The French age discrimination legislation is thrown into relief in light of the most recent national measures on the employment of senior workers (derived from a national inter-industry collective agreement and a government policy on the employment of senior workers for 2006-2010) aiming at increasing the level of employment of the senior workers through: securing…
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Caveat: As a federal jurisdiction, Canada’s ten provinces and three territories do not have identical age discrimination laws. Additionally, the federal government legislates in industries considered to be federal undertakings. The following information applies solely to Ontario, Canada’s largest province. While other Canadian provinces are becoming increasingly important economically, Ontario remains Canada’s economic engine, with…
