Evaluating impact on entailing different treatment
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Scope
Does the option entail any different treatment of groups or individuals directly on grounds of e.g. gender, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation? Or could it lead to indirect discrimination?[1]
Definition
This question refers to discrimination, defined as one person, or a group of persons, being treated less favourably than another on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation (direct discrimination), or where an apparently neutral provision is liable to disadvantage a group of persons on the same grounds of discrimination, unless objectively justified (indirect discrimination). In other words, the policy option should not treat people differently, negatively or adversely without a good reason. As used in human rights laws, discrimination means making a distinction between certain individuals or groups based on a prohibited ground. The idea behind it is that people should not be placed at a disadvantage simply because of their racial and ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.That is called discrimination and is against the law. Discrimination against older people may result in disproportionate levels of unemployment amongst this group, with potential consequences for the mental and physical health of individuals and may exacerbate the social exclusion of older people. High levels of unemployment may be proportionately greater for older generations. Discrimination against ethnic minorities may also result in disproportionate levels of unemployment amongst this group; equal levels of participation and attainment in higher education for ethnic minorities are essential to ensure equal social status and inclusion.[1]
Result
Indicators:
To the best of the IQ TOOLS team's knowledge, there are no indicators in the Eurostat database or in any other authoritative publicly available databases that are directly related to this key question. Users are invited to contribute their own knowledge to this topic by contacting the IQ TOOLS team.[1]
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References
This text is for information only and is not designed to interpret or replace any reference documents. The text is partially adapted from:
Anti-Discrimination Unit of the DG Employment and Social Affairs