Abstract
The article analyses European Union anti-discrimination law development in Member States and differences between protected grounds of discrimination. On this basis, the analysis covers recognition of the social complexity, internationalization and discrimination of foreigners for different grounds. The process of internationalization and migration, covering social, political, economical, cultural, legal processes, the non-discriminatory protection of a foreigner as a member of the society has become complicated, when attempting not to discriminate people arriving from the other countries and to have equal possibilities. The problems of discrimination are valid and significant for the civil society itself. The article also discusses the concept of multiple discrimination in European Union anti-discrimination law, legal regulation and protection against multiple discrimination in Europe and separate legal regulation of the Member States. This article argues that internationalization processes bring new approaches of interpretation of European Union employment equality law and contemporary challenges, introduces recent cases of equal treatment of employees during employment at private companies.
Highlights
During the process of the total globalization and internationalization of the modern world the increase of migration has become very significant as well as the related changes possessing migratory character, observable in the society at present
Despite the extensive regulation of the anti-discriminatory legislation of the European Union (EU), the people in the whole EU tend to confront the obstacles, which prevent them from identifying their potentials in various situations of everyday life, the same applies for Lithuania as well
One must note, that upon the process of internationalization and migration, covering social, political, economical, cultural, legal processes, the non-discriminatory protection of a foreigner as a member of the society has become rather complicated, when attempting not to discriminate people arriving from the other countries and to have equal possibilities
Summary
During the process of the total globalization and internationalization of the modern world the increase of migration has become very significant as well as the related changes possessing migratory character, observable in the society at present. The Racial Equality Directive (2000) and Employment Equality Directive (2000) defined the existing approaches of discrimination based on racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age and sexual orientation around the Europe and ensured that all people living in the European Union could benefit from effective legal protection for named grounds against the discrimination, irrespective of their nationality. The Employment Equality Directive (2000) covers the protection given to the field of employment and occupation as well as vocational training on the grounds of age, religion or belief, sexual orientation and disability, prohibits indirect and direct discrimination as well as harassment and instructions to discriminate, it is applied only in the sphere of employment. EU equality law and the fields covered by European Union legislation for the grounds of discrimination as age, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, race ethnic origin disposed at Table 1 (see Table 1)
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