ABSTRACT

Equality and discrimination are the concepts always used in legal practice. However, in daily language, these two concepts are sometimes used overlapping and often confused with each other. The reason for this can be explained as follows: The fundamental principle that can be expressed as all people are equal, emerged first with the prohibition of discrimination and subsequently gained a second dimension, which included the idea of justice and expressed as the principle of equal treatment. The recognition that the principle of equality has two dimensions as specified requires to determine as a result of the projection of the principle to the labor law that the employer’s obligation of equal treatment has also two dimensions. The aim of this study is to examine these two dimensions of the employer’s obligation of equal treatment, which are complementary but differing from each other regarding legal character, results, way of determination and provisions about sanction that they are subject to