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ARTICLE · 13 DECEMBER 2007

Equal Treatment Between Women And Men

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After a year of drafting and parliamentary discussions, Spain now has a new law on equal treatment between women and men. This is a ‘code of law’, so-called as it refers to all areas of society introducing amendments to 22 pieces of existing legislation and covering the public and the private sector.

SpainEmployment and HR
Raquel Flórez Escobar
Raquel Flórez Escobar

After a year of drafting and parliamentary discussions, Spain now has a new law on equal treatment between women and men. This is a ‘code of law’, so-called as it refers to all areas of society, introducing amendments to 22 pieces of existing legislation and covering the public and the private sector. This briefing looks at the most important measures introduced by the law from an employer’s point of view: measures against discrimination on grounds of sex, measures to promote equality within the private sector and measures to improve the balance between work life and private life.

The new law on equal treatment between women and men (the Law) entered into force on 23 March 2007. Among other things, this law implements two European directives on equal treatment, Directive 2002/73/EC on equal treatment between men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion and working conditions, and Directive 2004/113/EC implementing the principle of equal treatment

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