International Workplace Discrimination Law

With contributions from top legal scholars, this edited collection provides an international overview of the most up-to-date issues and new trends in law regarding employment discrimination in different countries. Confronting the US, the UK, and Japan on the one hand, with the EU jurisdictions, namely Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic on the other hand, this book pays special attention to the most significant changes to law in these countries and ongoing challenges they face. The monograph is complementary to a former one entitled "Discrimination and Employment Law: International Legal Perspectives", Joseph Carby-Hall, Zbigniew Góral and Aneta Tyc (eds.), Routledge 2023, and at the same time works as a separate volume. Adopting a problem-solving approach, this monograph offers an in-depth analysis of both anti-discrimination statutory law and of a growing and still developing corpus of case law. This book will appeal to students, academics and practitioners working in the field of labour and employment law, anti-discrimination law and human rights law, as well as to employers, employees, trade unions, the ETUC, the ILO, and policy-makers from all over the world.

List of Contributors
Foreword by Stephen Hardy
List of Abbreviations

1. International Workplace Discrimination Law: An Introduction, Jo Carby-Hall, Zbigniew Góral and Aneta Tyc

Part I. Discrimination Employment Law in Southern European Union Countries

2. Anti-discrimination Law in the Italian Courts: the new frontiers of the topic in the age of algorithms, Raffaello Santagata De Castro
3. Anti-discrimination Employment Law in France, Loïc Lerouge
4. The Right to Non-discrimination in Employment in the Kingdom of Spain, Jaime Cabeza Pereiro
5. Prohibition of employment-related discrimination in the Greek legal order, Ioannis Stribis

Part II. Discrimination Employment Law in Central European Union Countries

6. More equal than "others"…? The Hungarian Experience with "Other Status" as a Protected Characteristic in Terms of Discrimination in Employment, Szilvia Halmos
7. Overcoming the Persisting Scepticism with Equality. Equal treatment in employment: The Czech perspective, Kristina Koldinská, Jakub Tomšej
8. Discrimination in Employment in the Slovak Republic, Marcel Dolobáč

Part III. Discrimination Employment Law in non-European Union Countries

9. Sexual harassment in the British workplace, Jo Carby-Hall
10. Employment Discrimination Law in the United States: Strengths and Weaknesses, Risa L. Lieberwitz
11. Employment Discrimination Law in Japan: History and recent developments, Ryoko Sakuraba

12. International Workplace Discrimination Law: Concluding Remarks and Appraisal, Jo Carby-Hall, Zbigniew Góral and Aneta Tyc

Jo Carby-Hall is Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Research in the Centre for Legislative Studies, Faculty of Business, Law and Politics, at the University of Hull, UK.

Aneta Tyc is Dr. habil. of Law, Professor at the University of Lodz, employed in the Faculty of Law and Administration, Department of European, International and Collective Labour Law, Poland.

Zbigniew Góral is Professor of Law who retired in 2021 from the University of Łódź, Poland.