Combat discrimination at work and its impact on access to housing
Discriminations are various. They concern millions of people at work and also in other fields such as access to goods and services in particular housing.
Employment should guarantee access to housing because of the financial means and stability it brings ; but sometimes this is not enough. Discrimination at work has real consequences to access to housing.
We find the same categories of people discriminated at work and on access to housing (gender, age, disability, ethnic origin…). Therefore discrimination can be consecutive or cumulative and it creates complex situations that close the victims in a vicious circle.
Employment and access to housing are two elements crucial to succeed in social and economical integration. Exclusion and discrimination are closely linked. The scale of the situation and its social and economic impacts force the overall social and economic stakeholders to tackle the question. Moreover, these last years the legal framework in the different EU countries has advanced, especially on the transposition of European directives. Today, legal tools and trade-union practices allow us to better fight these phenomenons.
It is important to continue and to strengthen the Union intervention of concerning the fight against discrimination at work. At the same time, it is essential to better understand the link between the different fields where discriminations exist.
The CASADIS project is supported by the European Community Action Programme to combat discrimination (2001-2006). This programme was established to support the effective implementation of new EU anti-discrimination legislation. The six-year Programme targets all stakeholders who can help shape the development of appropriate and effective anti-discrimination legislation and policies, across the EU-25, EFTA and EU candidate countries. The Action Programme has three main objectives. These are :
1. To improve the understanding of issues related to discrimination
2. To develop the capacity to tackle discrimination effectively
3. To promote the values underlying the fight against discrimination
For more information :
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/fundamental_rights/index_fr.htm
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