Article 11 Equality in employment

Ensuring equality of opportunity in employment

The Republic of Korea, for example, designated a Gender employment equality emphasis week to raise corporate awareness of gender equality in employment.

Ireland's far reaching equality legislation included the Employment Equality Act 1998 and the Equal Status Act 2000.

In addition to the Employment Equality Act and the Equal Status Act he had just mentioned, equality was promoted by an Equality Authority.

The Measure had also supported equality proofing by the Equality Authority of employment policies and organizations, and research on women returning to employment and training and on women entrepreneurs.

Today, ideas about full employment and equality remain at the heart of social democracy.

Moreover, in the context of the above programme, the Research Centre for Gender Equality, in collaboration with the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection, the General Secretariat for Gender Equality and the Employment Inspectorate, has organized seminars for employment inspectors in Athens and Thessaloniki, concerning

Equality in recruitment and employment practices All public sector agencies have established practices, procedures, and recruitment rules with regard to employment including that of women.

Reaffirms that employment policies should promote decent work under conditions of equity, equality, security and dignity and that employment creation should be incorporated into macroeconomic policies

The Department of Education and Science Gender Equality Unit focused on the education sector, while the Ministry of Finance Gender Equality Unit oversaw the implementation of equality policies in the employment of civil servants.

Equality subprogramme which aims at the development of a quality system of the counselling support and employment services.

The National Action Plan for Employment constitutes the main tool for planning and implementing employment policies. One of the guidelines of the National Action Plan is gender equality.

Reaffirms the commitment to employment policies that promote full and productive employment and decent work for all under conditions of equity, equality, security and dignity, and also reaffirms that employment creation should be incorporated into macroeconomic policies

Social sustainability evaluation criteria include such areas as employment (quality, including quality of employment and compliance with labour standards), equality and access to essential services such as energy services.

9. Reaffirms the commitment to employment policies that promote full and productive employment and decent work for all under conditions of equity, equality, security and dignity, and also reaffirms that employment creation should be incorporated into macroeconomic policies

16. Also reaffirms the commitment to employment policies that promote full and productive employment and decent work for all under conditions of equity, equality, security and dignity, and further reaffirms that employment creation should be incorporated into macroeconomic policies

The lack of sex disaggregated data is an obstacle to informed decisions for the promotion of gender equality in employment.

Areas of emphasis in the plan were education, training, employment, quality of life, equality of opportunities, participation and international cooperation.

Matters relating to equality of opportunity in education and employment and fuller participation of women in all spheres of national life.

In addition, the Research Centre on Equality Matters offered victims psychological and legal support and employment advice in five major towns.

Growth should promote full employment and poverty reduction, and should seek improved patterns of income distribution through greater equality of opportunity.

In two of those areas, employment and participation in decision making, women's de facto equality with men was far from being achieved.

Equality of opportunity and treatment in employment is a fundamental principle and a basic human right that must apply to all women.

Such laws included the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1987, the revised Family Law of 1989 and the revised Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1989 to regulate the question of equality between men and women.

An example is the installation of the Tripartite Commission for Equality of Opportunity for Gender and Race at Work and the Program for Institutional Strengthening for Gender and Racial Equality, Eradication of Poverty and Generation of Employment.

It follows, then, that the right to equality could be violated even where another legal right to, say, housing or employment does not exist.

With respect to gender equality, a women's union had been formed to promote greater access to education, health care services, vocational training and employment.

Convinced that equality between the sexes, women apos s equal participation in employment and shared parental responsibility are essential elements of modern family policy,

(c) The Delhi Group welcomed the development of a framework at the international level including informal employment as an indicator with respect to monitoring progress relating to Millennium Development Goal 3 encompassing equality and employment of women

Following the enactment of the Equality Act 2004, he had sought legal advice with regard to the reservation on article 11, paragraph 1, which was being maintained because of very limited exclusions in the Employment Equality Act 1998.

The above court practice shows that gender equality in such a relevant area as employment relationships is guaranteed not only in the legal acts but also by court practice, which ensures the genuine application of the equality principle.

(a) Ensure that the creation of productive employment is a central objective of national and international macroeconomic policies, in order to create opportunities for workers to secure productive employment in conditions of equity, equality, security and human dignity

Tunisia had ratified the ILO conventions concerning equality of treatment of nationals and non nationals in employment and occupations and equal remuneration and social security.

A second fundamental element is gender equality, women apos s equal participation in employment, shared parental responsibility and the significance of the rights of children.

There were chapters in the National Action Plan for Employment, for instance, dealing with male female employment, integration trends, improvement and support of family networks and use of the European Social Fund to achieve equality between men and women.

Since it was considered that the law on professional equality had not had the desired impact, a training manual had been developed on equality in employment with the intention of demonstrating to companies the economic advantages of training and employing women.

A framework committee was developing guidelines on employment equality policies, recruitment and equal status, based mainly on best practices, and disseminating them to employers and organizations.

(a) Identification, definition and development of a core set of indicators on informal sector and informal employment in line with the importance placed on informal employment by the Task Force on Education and Gender Equality of the United Nations Millennium Project

This programme will be implemented by the Greek Manpower Employment Organization during the period 2004 2006, and, for this reason, a fruitful co operation between the General Secretariat for Gender Equality and the Greek Manpower Employment Organization has already taken place.

Ms. Patten said that in spite of the progress that had been noted in some areas of employment gross inequalities persisted. Was there a clear national policy for the promotion of equality of opportunity and treatment in regard to employment?

There will be equality of status, equality of opportunity and equality before the law.

We also encourage full gender equality, which will eliminate stereotypes of the image of women in order to allow egalitarian access to education and employment for women.

This programme was co financed by the Directorate General of Employment and Social Affairs of the European Commission (80 ) and the General Secretariat for Gender Equality (20 ).

Principle of equality of treatment in respect of remuneration and other conditions of work and terms of employment social security and right to receive urgent medical care.