Indicator history

Implementing the EU directive 2000/43, the  AGG  covers all the are as provided for in the directive. However, the    AGG  contains exceptional provisions that do not app ear to b e in line with the directive. Besides a questionably broad interpretation of the rights of religious organisations to privilege members of their denomination (§ 9 AGG), the  AGG  explicitly exempts the area of dismissal form the scope of the law; instead, the AGG refers to the Law against Unfair Dismissal (Kündigungsschutzgesetz)   (§ 2 (4) AGG). 
The law also contains a provision that limits the prohibition of housing discrimination (irrespective of the specific grounds of discrimination, but mainly relevant to migrants and ethnic minorities: According to § 19 (3) AGG, ‘in the case of rental of housing, a difference of treatment shall not be deemed to be discrimination where they (sic.) serve to create and maintain stable social structures regarding inhabitants and balanced settlement structures, as well as balanced economic, social and cultural conditions.’