Employment Equality Act 1998 (Number 21 of 1998). Pays/Territoire Irlande Type du document Législation Date 1998 (2021) Source FAO, FAOLEX Titre completAn act to make further provision for the promotion of equality between employed persons; to make further provision with respect to discrimination in, and in connection with, employment, vocational training and membership of certain bodies; to make further provision in connection with council directive no. 75/117/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the member states relating to the application of the principle of equal pay for men and women and council directive no. 76/207/EEC on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions; to make further provision with respect to harassment in employment and in the workplace; to change the name and constitution of the employment equality agency and provide for the administration by that body of various matters pertaining to this act; to establish procedures for the investigation and remedying of various matters arising under this act; to repeal the anti-discrimination (pay) act, 1974, and the employment equality act, 1977, and to provide for related matters. Sujet Général Mot clé Législation de base Protection sociale Genre Institution Politique/planification Accès-à-l'information Infractions/sanctions Procédures judiciaires/procédures administratives Droits de l'homme Aire géographique Îles de l'Océan Atlantique, Europe, Europe et Asie Centrale, Pays de l'Union Européenne, Atlantique Nord, Atlantique du Nord-Est, Europe du Nord Résumé The Act contains provisions with respect to discrimination in, and in connection with, employment, vocational training and membership of certain bodies and promoting equality between employed persons. For the purposes of this Act discrimination discriminatory grounds between any 2 persons are: a) that one is a woman and the other is a man (in this Act referred to as “the gender ground”); b) that they are of different civil status (in this Act referred to as “the civil status ground”): c) that one has family status and the other does not (in this Act referred to as “the family status ground”); d) that they are of different sexual orientation (in this Act referred to as “the sexual orientation ground”); e) that one has a different religious belief from the other, or that one has a religious belief and the other has not (in this Act referred to as “the religion ground”); f) that they are of different ages, but subject to subsection (3) (in this Act referred to as “the age ground”); g) that one is a person with a disability and the other either is not or is a person with a different disability (in this Act referred to as “the disability ground”); h) that they are of different race, colour, nationality or ethnic or national origins (in this Act referred to as “the ground of race”); i) that one is a member of the Traveller] community and the other is not (in this Act referred to as “the Traveller community ground”). Gender discrimination shall also occur where, on a ground related to her pregnancy or maternity leave, a woman employee is treated, contrary to any statutory requirement, less favourably than another employee is, has been or would be treated. Texte intégral Anglais Site web revisedacts.lawreform.ie Références - Législation Implementé par Employment Equality Act 1998 (Section 20A) (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 264/2022). Législation | Irlande | 2022 Mot clé: Genre, Droits de l'homme, Accès-à-l'information, Collecte de données/déclarations Source: FAO, FAOLEX