“on the ground that” […] refers to the operative rather than the auxiliary premisses of the discriminator’s reasoning […] since an auxiliary premiss has only an informational and not a motivational role in one’s thinking. One problem with this is that in real-life cases of direct ...
President Obama is set to repeal the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy put into place by President Clinton. Angela Alioto, who has been a long time advocate for equality, sees this as another important step in the fight for gay rights. In Angela’s words, “”Equality of all of the ...
2) restrict the exemptions allowed in the Order and in the Equal Pay Act 1970 with respect to retirement; 3) provide for common age limits for men and women in unfair dismissal cases; 4) extend exemptions to the Order for training bodies to include any person providing training; 5) authori...
or ambiguous results. Employers and social institutions have sought to justify discriminatory treatment for women on the basis of long-held traditions. In some cases the Court has agreed, while in others the justifications have been dismissed as cultural stereotypes that have no basis in fact. ...
The book,unusually, deals in detail with Northern Irelands fair employment legislation as well as the law relating to sex, race and disability discrimination and equal pay. Structured so as to be accessible to the student approaching discrimination law for the first time, the book is sufficiently...
In disparate impact cases, in contrast, the intent of the employer is not at issue: it is charged that, for whatever reason, the hiring, promotion, or termination practices of the employer impact to a greater extent on one or more protected classes, for example, Hispanics and African-...
Accurately measuring discrimination is therefore a crucial yet challenging task.This volume showcases Irish and international research on inequality, and on discrimination as a contributor to that inequality. Drawing on economics, sociology and social psychology, Making Equality Count highlights advances ...
Notable recent cases of sex discrimination include: Entre los casos recientes más notables de discriminación sexual, cabe mencionar los siguientes: UN-2 The Sex Discrimination Act protects transgender people against discrimination and harassment in employment and work training. La ley contra la...
Elsevier Ireland LtdForensic Science InternationalMacaluso PJ, Rico A, Santos M, and Lucena J. 2012. Osteometric sex discrimination from the sternal extremity of the fourth rib in a recent forensic sample from Southwestern Spain. ...
the Committee observes that, at a minimum, this obligation requires the State party=s legal system to afford a remedy in cases where an act of racial discrimination within the meaning of the Convention has been made out, whether before the national courts or, in this case, the Committee. Th...