Overview

This briefing from Baker & McKenzie's Global Employment Practice Group contains a collection of articles from 13 jurisdictions which examine various issues regarding equality in the workplace. Taken as a whole, the briefing outline how countries continue to pass new legislation that aims to create an equal environment for all employees regardless of age, gender, or race.

An issue that continues to be at the forefront is the right to equal pay for equal work which is addressed in articles from Argentina, Austria, Canada, Colombia, Japan, and Russia. The issue of pay equity is further examined in articles from Germany and Mexico where the equal pay principle is extended to agency workers and when dealing with outsourcing companies.

Other articles include one from the United Kingdom where gender equality in the boardroom is examined and articles from the United States where diversity in the workplace and California's Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 are discussed in depth.

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