Traduction de «race discrimination » (Anglais → Français) :

In 2002 a Race Relations Unit (RRU) was established within the Home Affairs Bureau to deal with enquiries and complaints on race discrimination, administer the Equal Opportunities Funding Scheme and as the secretariat to the Committee on the Promotion of Racial Harmony.

Four areas are worth highlighting in this context: 1) lifelong learning collective agreements in Belgium, Finland, Germany (metalworking industry in Baden-Württemberg), Italy and Portugal; 2) equal opportunities aiming at reducing gender pay inequalities (Belgium, Finland, Netherlands and Ireland), at combating race discrimination (France, Denmark and Ireland), at increasing employment of disabled persons (Belgium Italy and Ireland) and at preventing age discrimination (Denmark and Austria); 3) health and safety at work collective agreements on the prevention and treatment of stress (Belgium) on well-being and psychological work enviro ...[+++]nment (Denmark) and against the excessive workload (the Netherlands); 4) flexibility and work-life balance collective agreements on parental leave (Sweden), on family leave and family-linked working time patterns (Belgium, Greece, Italy, and the Netherlands), on sabbaticals (Finland), on childcare arrangements (Greece, Ireland and the Netherlands), on flexitime and teleworking (Italy, Austria, and Denmark) and on temporary agency workers (Italy and Germany).

The rapporteur seeks to ensure a common minimum level of protection including the reversal of the burden of proof in civil race discrimination cases and giving individuals the right to take civil proceedings if they are harassed or victimised on the grounds of race.

B. insisting that there can be no respect for human rights while discrimination on grounds of race occurs, and that the Amsterdam Treaty thus marked a major milestone by ending the controversy over the competence of the EU institutions for implementing anti-racism policies by establishing for the first time in the new Article 29 of the EU Treaty and new Article 13 of the EC Treaty that not only is the fight against racism and xenophobia an explicit European Union objective but race discrimination is the breach of a fundamental right under EU law,

28. Urges both business and public sector organisations to recognise the case for race equality on grounds of financial efficiency as well as moral imperative and thus to regard European legislation against race discrimination as a positive spur to the adoption of a diversity strategy including setting of targets and positive action for recruitment and promotion;

[4] Specifically, a directive concerning employment and outlawing the grounds for discrimination mentioned in Article 13 with the exception of sex (Council Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (27/11/00); a directive designed to combat discrimination based on race or ethnic origin in employment, social protection, education and access to and supply of goods and services Council Directive 2000/43/EC implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespect ...[+++]ive of racial or ethnic origin (29/06/00); and an action programme to combat discrimination Council Decision 2000/750/EC establishing a Community action programme to combat discrimination (2001 to 2006) (27/11/00).