Working Lives Research Institute
Steve Jefferys, Sonia McKay, Sylvie Contrepois (for France), Eugenia Markova (for Bulgaria) and Anna Paraskevopoulou (for Greece), supported by Jawad Botmeh at the WLRI and 24 national experts
December 2008 – May 2010
EU Fundamental Rights Agency, Vienna
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in 2008 launched a data collection project entitled Impact of the Racial Equality Directive to marshal evidence of the changing context of racial and ethnic discrimination in Europe and of the effectiveness of Council Directive 2000/43/EC. The project included four work packages:
(1) Secondary data collection on the impact of anti-discrimination practices by the group known as RAXEN of National Focal Points collecting data and information in all EU Members States.
(2) Secondary data collection of complaints statistics by an EU-wide network of legal experts known as FRALEX.
(3) Primary statistical data collection on the awareness of the existence of victim support provisions by migrants and other minorities through the EU-MIDIS survey, the first ever EU-wide survey of immigrant and ethnic minority groups’ experiences of discrimination and victimisation in everyday life.
(4) Primary qualitative data collection on the views of social partner organisations in the Member States on the impact of the Racial Equality Directive in the area of employment commissioned from the Working Lives Research Institute
The evidence collected through this multidisciplinary project will allow the FRA to contribute to the European Commission’s report to the European Parliament and Council in 2010 on the application of the Directive in the Member States.
The qualitative study was carried out on behalf of the Fundamental Rights Agency by the Working Lives Research Institute (WLRI) of London Metropolitan University with these objectives:
(1) Gather primary qualitative data on the awareness of Member State social partners of the Racial Equality Directive and of its transposed national legislation and on what they have done to prevent and combat discrimination based on racial or ethic origin in employment since 2003;
(2) Identify good employment practices that have been encouraged by the presence of the Racial Equality Directive;
(3) Explore the factors behind the low level of public complaints of racial and ethnic discrimination in employment reported to the new Equality Bodies.
(4) Assess the extent of active social dialogue on combating discrimination in employment during the five years since the EU key instrument intended to prevent and combat discrimination based on racial or ethic origin was supposed to have been implemented in 2003/2004.
The research involved interviewing employers’ associations, individual employers, trade union confederations and individual trade unionists and many NGOs between March and June 2009. It resulted in 27 national reports and the following final comparative report.
Please click on link below to see the final report:
Racial-equality-directive_conf-ed_en.pdf
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