THE PHENOMENON OF DISCRIMINATION IN LABOUR RELATIONS. PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF AGE, RELIGION, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR DISABILITY
THE PHENOMENON OF DISCRIMINATION IN LABOUR RELATIONS. PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF AGE, RELIGION, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR DISABILITY

Summary/Abstract: Workplace discrimination is a matter of increasing sensitivity both in national legislation and in Community law, currently seeking effective ways of combating it. Analyzing the statistics at national level, we will notice that a small number of complaints based on the discriminatory criteria applied to the employees at the workplace are recorded on the territory of our country. Employers currently use criteria with objective justification and implicitly proportionate to the purpose they pursue from the employee. Of course, in practice, any employer may be subject to sanctions if it breaches the principle of non-discrimination, and the National Council for Combating Discrimination currently watches any irregularities that may arise in the labour relations. Any interested person who considers him/herself discriminated at the workplace can directly address the Romanian courts, being in no way subject to NCCD notification, within three years from the moment when the deed was committed or from the moment when the person became aware of its occurrence. The most common forms of discrimination are those based on age, religious affiliation, sexual orientation or disability, which I will try to detail in this paper.

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