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Workplace equality directive approved

The European Commission has approved a directive whereby member states must set up a system of ‘proportionate and persuasive’ legal sanctions to protect employees from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, age or religion. This goes hand in hand with another directive outlawing racial discrimination within the workplace.

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