EU Law- Sexual Equality I (Social Policy)
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- Created on: 11-11-20 19:35
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- Sexual Equality I (Social Policy)
- The Legislation
- Article 157 TFEU
- Main piece of primary legislation
- Sets down principle men and women should be paid equally for doing equal work or work of equal value
- Generated lots of case law
- Equal Pay Directive (75/117) and Equal Treatment Directive (76/207)
- Expanded law on sexual equality
- Provisions contained in those directives were also subject of case law
- Recast Equal Treatment Directive repealed and replaced earlier Directives
- To extend that recast Directive repeats provisions formerly contained in old Directives, case law relating to those provisions will remain relevant.
- The Recast Directive
- Directive 2006/54/EC
- Equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast)
- Article 157 TFEU
- Types of Sex Discrimination
- Paying a woman less than a man for doing same job
- Making man wait until he is 65 to get his State pension rights, whereas woman qualifies earlier
- Denying woman access to higher position within company even though she is better qualified than successful male candidate
- Positively promoting woman who is less well qualified for job than a male candidate
- Some of these practices may originate in policies operated by individual employer
- Other practices may derive from national legislation
- EU may be able to assist in challenging existence or enforcement of these policies
- The Legislation
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