Multiple Discrimination in Employment Relationships

ABSTRACT: Discrimination in legal employment relationships involves the existence of differential treatment applied by the employer in violation of protected criteria established in the states’ national legislation to restrain or eliminate the use or exercise of employees’ rights. Discrimination involves the imposition of differentiation between employees, usually in comparable situations, and the application of identical treatment, even though they have different duties in the work process, with similar effects of excluding their rights. The article analyses multiple discrimination concerning the relevant European and national legislation, with reference to international and European regulations and relevant case law. KEYWORDS: discrimination, multiple, rights, criteria, regulation