With a view to ensuring the exercise of the right to equality of opportunity and treatment for men and women workers with family responsibilities and between such workers and other workers, the Parties undertake:
3. to ensure that family responsibilities shall not, as such, constitute a valid reason for termination of employment.
Legal status
Legally binding
Body
Council of Europe
Document type
Regional treaty
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Economic Rights
Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
Families
Men
Women
Year
1996
Paragraph type
Article
Reference
European Social Charter (Revised) (1996), Article 27, 3.
Paragraph focus
The right of workers with family responsibilities to equal opportunities and equal treatment