We can advise our clients in respect of the following equality related matters:
- Access to Employment
- Access to goods and services, facilities or amenities.
- Burden of proof in equality cases
- Direct discrimination
- Discrimination by association
- Education
- Equal rights in respect of the provision of goods and services by the state or private sector, and in employment.
- The Employment Equality Act 1998
- Employment and working conditions
- The Equality Authority
- The Equal Status Act 2000
- Gender equality
- Genuine and determining occupational retirement
- Harassment
- The Human Rights Commission
- Indirect discrimination
- Instruction to discriminate
- Membership of and involvement in organisations
- Mental health as a disability: discrimination against and equality rights of persons with mental health issues.
- The National Disability Authority Act, 1999: provision of services to people with disabilities. National Disability Authority. Disability Equality Awards System.
- Obligations of owners and operators of businesses that supply goods and services, accommodation, education (schools) or that operate private registered clubs.
- Obligations and duties of employers
- Positive action: legal provisions
- Positive action: programmes
- Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989: racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and anti-Traveller sentiment. Reporting Racism. Law reform.
- Racial discrimination
- Social advantages
- Social protection
- Training
- The Unfair Dismissals Acts 1973 – 1993
- Victimisation as discrimination
- Xenophobia: incitement to hatred, racism and xenophobia as an aggravating factor in criminal sentencing. Xenophobia as discrimination.
