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Damages in German Labor Law – Amending the AGG

Hartmut H. Frenzel, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall / Tyrol, Austria
Magdalena Thöni, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall / Tyrol, Austria

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Discussant: Magdalena Nogueira

Abstract

The European legislator has enacted European anti-discrimination laws (Race Equality Directive, Employment Equality Directive, Directives on equal treatment for men and women) with the task to all member states to convert them into national laws.

The German legislator has decided to enact in the General Act on Equal Treatment (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz – abbreviated AGG) by means of civil law with damage-compensation and compensation for non-economic-loss.

The focus of the work at hand is an examination, if the existing form of the AGG is efficient under the view of law and economics and which way can lead to an efficiency increase of the AGG.

Suggested Citation

Hartmut H. Frenzel and Magdalena Thöni. "Damages in German Labor Law – Amending the AGG" I Annual Conference of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (Asociación Española de Derecho y Economía). Faculty of Law, (Autonomus University of Madrid or "Autónoma de Madrid"), Spain.. Jul. 2010.

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