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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9702

12 July 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Employers saying they do not want to recruit people of a specific ethnic origin are guilty of direct discrimination

Brussels, 11/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a ruling published on Thursday 10 July 2008, the Court of Justice of the European Communities (CJEC) says that a Belgian company infringed the EU anti-discrimination directive by not wanting to recruit immigrant workers. Nobody came forward to complain about being refused a job by the company in question but the Court ruled that in the absence of an identifiable complainant, the employer's public statements that it did not recruit immigrants...

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