Systemic Discrimination in Employment and the Promotion of Ethnic Equality (International Studies in Human Rights): 91 - Hardcover

Craig, Ronald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004154620 ISBN 13: 9789004154629

Publisher: Brill Nijhoff, 2006

Synopsis

This book argues that traditional complaint-based antidiscrimination laws are inherently inadequate to respond to systemic discrimination in employment. It examines the mechanisms and characteristics of systemic discrimination and the shortcomings of complaint-based laws. Yet these characteristics can also inform employers and government authorities of the kinds of preventive action that help alleviate systemic discrimination at the workplace. In its search for a rational government policy response to systemic discrimination, the book evaluates selected legal regimes which impose proactive obligations on employers to promote equality at the workplace. Proactive regimes are regulatory in nature, rather than adjudicatory. They induce employer compliance through technical assistance, dialogue and regulatory pressure, rather than court orders. By examining the key elements of these regimes the author explains why some proactive regimes function better than others, and why proactive regimes function better than complaint-based laws in addressing systemic discrimination.

About this title

About the Author:

Ronald Craig is a researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, which is a part of the Law Faculty at the University of Oslo. Dr. Craig has his legal education from both the USA and Norway.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9004154620
• ISBN 13: 9789004154629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348