Material scope

In some fields, especially employment, such as access to employment including selection criteria, recruitment conditions and promotion, vocational guidance and vocational training, working conditions and membership of and involvement in workers’ or employers’ organisations, discrimination is expressly prohibited by current law, in both the public and private sectors.

In fields such as social protection and social advantages, education and access to it and the supply of goods and services available to the public, including housing, the applicable regulations do not usually contain explicit anti-discrimination clauses, but they are subject to the general principle stated in the Constitution. Law 62/2003 establishes anti-discrimination measures in these fields, but only for discrimination on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin.