The present text was produced in response to the European Foundation's request for a compilation of selected examples of "good practice" in promoting equal treatment at the workplace in the Federal Republic of Germany. In accordance with our terms of reference, these examples are presented in...

Educational measures can only help with certain aspects of racism, sexism, etc. They can help the subject to reflect on the adequacy of the criteria it applies in judging persons it does not know personally. But education does not remove the causes inviting the subject to make categorical...

At present, the occupational health policies which stem from the industrial era are gripped by a deep crisis. Constant technological change, the changing patterns of employment and production, the limitations of inspection services, cost cutting exercises in many companies and the weakness of...

The Social Dialogue Summit in Florence in 1995 issued a declaration in which the participants commited themselves to combating racism in general and at the workplace in particular. This declaration was also signed by Belgium, which means that each joint committee must conform to this arrangement...

Immigration policy in Italy is governed, as far as the most important aspects are concerned, by two different regulatory traditions: that of the workers' movement and labour law, which is completely universal and guaranteed, and that of State legislation on citizens' civil, political and social...

Few concrete measures concerned with discrimination on the labour market (apart form the efforts to open up employment in the public sector to all) emerge from this report on activities on behalf of immigrants in the Socialist trade union, OGB-L. The reasons for this probably relate to the fact...