La directiva antidiscriminatoria (2000/78/EC)Implicaciones en selección de personal
ISSN: 1576-5962
Any de publicació: 2004
Volum: 20
Número: 2
Pàgines: 199-224
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Revista de psicología del trabajo y de las organizaciones = Journal of work and organizational psychology
Resum
The Directive (2000/78/EC) is a basic reference in the debate of the European psycholo-gists on “test bias” and the “adverse impact” of the selection procedures. To ensure com-pliance with the principle of equal treatment, Member States of the Union must implementthe Directive by 2 December 2003, and, for that reason, the concept of indirect discrimina-tion will become soon an important matter of concern, as it happened in the United States inthe past. From the theoretical standpoint, the new legal framework means a major upheaval in the conventional concepts of “fairness” and “test bias”. From a theoretical paint of view,the Directive is expected to have an impact on many common procedures in technical selec-tion processes. In this paper, we stress the psychological implications of this Directive takingas a basis the precedent decissions of the European Court of Justice. By doing this, we wantto highlight the relevance of this new legal doctrine for Wordk and Organizational Psychologists; we also want to discuss topics likely to influence our way of dealing with personnel selection in the future.
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