When does affirmative action in favour of certain employees become unfair discrimination against others

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dc.contributor.authorDu Toit, Darcy
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-14T08:20:07Z
dc.date.available2013-06-14T08:20:07Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.description.abstractThe paper is concerned with the practical question of the circumstances under which measures which might otherwise have amounted to unfair discrimination will amount to affirmative action and will therefore be lawful. It addressed a number of conceptual issues, including where the affirmative action should be understood as a limitation on the right to equality or the expression thereof; and the differing interpretations of discrimination by Langa DP and Sachs J in City Council of Pretoria v Walker, in both cases preferring the latter approach. Reviewing the relevant case law up to May 2000, it considers whether the approach laid down by the High Court in Public Servants Association of SA v Minister of Justice can survive the promulgation of the final Constitution and the Employment Equity Act. It also doubts whether the requirement of individual disadvantage in respect of affirmative action measures is (still) appropriate and suggest that underrepresentation of groups that suffered unfair discrimination is a prefereble criterion.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDu Toit, D. (2001). When does affirmative action in favour of certian employees become unfair discrimination against others. International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, 5(2-3): 147-166en_US
dc.identifier.issn1358-2291
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/643
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author's post-print version of an article published by Sage Publications and may be freely used, provided that full acknowledgment is given.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135822910100500305
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectAffirmative actionen_US
dc.subjectUnfair discriminationen_US
dc.subjectEqualityen_US
dc.subjectRight to equalityen_US
dc.titleWhen does affirmative action in favour of certain employees become unfair discrimination against othersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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