Employment Equality Bill 1996
Public bill · Government · Presented
Would strengthen workplace equality by tackling discrimination and harassment, protecting equal pay and access to jobs and training, and reshaping the Employment Equality Agency.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to make further provision for the promotion of equality between employed persons; to make further provision with respect to discrimination in, and in connection with, employment, vocational training and membership of certain bodies; to make further provision in connection with Council Directive 75/117/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the member states relating to the application of the principle of equal pay for men and women and Council Directive 76/207/EEC on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions; to make further provision with respect to harassment in employment and in the workplace; to change the name and constitution of the Employment Equality Agency; to repeal the Anti-Discrimination (Pay) Act, 1974, and to amend the Employment Equality Act, 1977; and to provide for related matters
Last updated 2 March 2020
- Minister for Equality and Law Reform Primary
- First StageDáil
- Second StageDáil
- Committee StageDáil
- Report StageDáil
- Fifth StageDáil
- Second StageSeanad
- Committee StageSeanad
- Report StageSeanad
- Fifth StageSeanad Repugnant