The concept of discrimination -- Systemic discrimination in employment -- The limits of complaint-based approaches in addressing systemic discrimination in employment -- Ethnic equality in employment -- Proactive obligations to promote equality in employment : an introduction -- Statutory-based proactive obligations to promote equality in employment : five approaches -- Contract-based proactive obligations to promote equality in employment : four approaches -- A rational government policy response to systemic ethnic discrimination in employment
Summary
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 obl
