After months of controversies, the German coalition government succeeded in agreeing, in the night of 1 to 2 May 2006, on a law against discriminations. This text, which will transpose in the German law four European directives, goes beyond their requirements. (Ref. 06437)
A non-discriminatory access to goods and services. Like the Community directives, the German law, renamed “law on equal treatment” (Gleichbehandlungsgesetz), will prohibit any discrimination at workplace (hiring, promotion, training, etc), based on religion, convictions, race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, age and handicap. But whereas the European legislation is limited to three criteria of discrimination (race, ethnic membership and sex) when it leaves the framework of the working...
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