Systemic Discrimination in Employment and the Promotion of Ethnic Equality

Systemic Discrimination in Employment and the Promotion of Ethnic Equality
ISBN-10
9004154620
ISBN-13
9789004154629
Category
Political Science
Pages
327
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Author
Ronald L. Craig

Description

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.

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