The defendant company had refused to employ the complainant at Heathrow on the basis that he was Italian, and relied upon exemptions in the 1976 Act.
Held: A Statutory provision which permitted discrimination against a worker employed in Europe operated against the Treaty obligation to afford free movement of workers and is to be ignored.
Citations:
Times 13-Mar-1998
Statutes:
Race Relations Act 1976 8, EC Treaty Art 48
Discrimination, European
Updated: 18 May 2022; Ref: scu.78497