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American And British Employment Discrimination Law: An Introductory Comparative Survey, Robert N. Covington
American And British Employment Discrimination Law: An Introductory Comparative Survey, Robert N. Covington
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Age, alienage, ethnicity, race, religion, and sex lead to differential treatment of individuals the world over. Employment discrimination is felt most acutely in those industrialized nations where one's income level is the major determinant of so many other things: where one lives, what one wears, how one's children are educated. Concern over the social and economic consequences of employment discrimination has led to the development of new legal techniques on both sides of the Atlantic. The recent enactment in Britain of the Sex Discrimination Act, 1975, and the Race Relations Act, 1976, invites a comparison of those statutes and related …