The Malta Employers Association today expressed serious concerns about the Human Rights and the Equality Commission Act 2015, and the Equality Act 2015. The Association said that while it finds no issue with safeguarding the rights of minorities and vulnerable persons, it cannot agree in principle with measures that will effectively place an employer as a … Continue Reading »
Private sector employers provide essential goods and services and maintain over 160,000 people in invariably decent and gainful employment. The Ministry of Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations is presenting, for parliamentary approval, two Bills, The Human Rights & Equality Commission Act 2015 and the Equality Act 2015. These Bills are being promoted as instruments that … Continue Reading »
THE HAGUE, Netherlands- Today (12:30 -19:00) the Plenary of the Dutch Parliament discusses the State of the European Union and their upcoming EU Presidency. In preparation of this, former EU Commissioner Frits Bolkestein wrote an article in the 3rd largest Dutch Newspaper on the currently hotly debated #EqualTreatmentDirective. Dubbing it an “absurd piece of legislation”. … Continue Reading »
Proportionality implies a careful balancing between the interests at stake, the goals pursued, the means employed to reach them and the rights and freedoms that might be curtailed in this process. The European Commission hasn’t proven that the ETD is proportionate to the aims pursued and that there were no less restrictive means available to … Continue Reading »