Discrimination based on sex constitutes over the half of the complaints, received by Controller’s Office for Equal Opportunities in 2012.
Last year 203 cases of discrimination were investigated. Over 30 % of complaints concerned discrimination based on sex, 13% – concerned age discrimination. The most of complaints – 78- concerned workplaces and relations between employee-employer.
Complaints also concerned issues of nationality-based discrimination (8 cases), and language discrimination (6 cases).
The most complaints came from the Vilnius citizens- those constituted 68% of all.
Tłumaczenie Jacek Malatyński w ramach praktyk w Europejskiej Fundacji Praw Człowieka, www.efhr.eu. Translated by Jacek Malatyński the framework of a traineeship programme of the European Foundation of Human Rights, www.efhr.eu.