| Summary: | 199 ABSTRACT Discrimination in employment relations with the focus on sexual harassment This dissertation thesis deals with discrimination in employment relations with the focus on sexual harassment. Its primary objective is to provide a survey of the anti-discrimination or sexual harassment legislation and the means of protection against its manifestations. At the same time this thesis provides a basic overview of the development of legislation prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sex and also of the development of legislation of the institute of sexual harassment itself. Furthermore, this thesis provides a detailed explan ation concerning anti-discrimination legislation in the area of international law and EU law which is supplemented with a specific legal analysis of sexual harassment legislation in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States of America. The dissertation thesis is divided into ten chapters. The first chapter focuses on definition of the basic terms used in the field of discrimination, specifically the terms such as direct and indirect discrimination, principle of equal treatment, affirmative ac tion etc. This part then ends with the definition of the term harassment and sexual harassment. The second part deals with a legal analysis of the development of discrimination...
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