The principle of equal treatment applies to all areas defined in the EU Directives and overall does not go beyond the scope of the Directives.
In particular, the principle of equal treatment has to be observed in the field of access to employment, occupation and other earning activity or function, including recruitment requirements, selection criteria and methods, vocational training, advanced vocational training and participation in active labour market policy programmes, including vocational guidance services, membership and activity in employees’ organisations, employers’ organisations and in organisations whose members carry outa particular profession, including benefits provided by such organisations, and in the fields of social aid (social services), social insurance, old-age pension insurance, accessory pension insurance, state social support and social advantages, health care, education, goods and services, including housing, provided to the public by legal entities and natural persons – entrepreneurs. In all these fields, discrimination is prohibited on all the grounds listed in the Anti-discrimination Act. The implementation of the Anti-discrimination Act concerns both the private and the public sector.
