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Opinion: the role of Unia as a litigant in discrimination cases

December 14, 2022

Last month, the Antwerp labor court rejected the claim of an employee who wanted to hear his employer convicted
for a racially inspired dismissal. In its judgment, the labor court noted that it could not get rid of the impression that the alleged racist nature of the dismissal decision had been talked into the employee (sic) by Unia.

According to Mr. Renette, the legally provided option for Unia to go to court itself is a weakness. Read the full opinion piece as published in Het Belang van Limburg below.

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