Dr Raimonda Bublienė, a postdoctoral fellow at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, participating in the postdoctoral project “Multiple Discrimination and Labour Income: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Regulations in European Countries” (MEDALIC), took part in the 15th international conference “Work and Non-Work, Today. Reframing the Issue through an Interdisciplinary Perspective”, organized in Bergamo (Italy) by ADAPT’s International School of Higher Education in Labour and Industrial Relations.

At the conference, Dr Bublienė delivered a presentation entitled “Labour Income and Dimension of Multiple Discrimination.” She introduced the research problematics and methodology of the ongoing MEDALIC project. Discussing the phenomenon of multiple discrimination, the researcher noted that individuals may simultaneously belong to several vulnerable groups and as a result experience specific forms of discrimination. For example, the intersection of gender and racial stereotypes can significantly disadvantage immigrant women.

According to the researcher, the main labour market issues resulting from such discrimination relate to access to employment and the legal regulation in European countries concerning equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women, which has a direct impact on labour income. Additional challenges arise from the fragmented anti-discrimination legal framework, inadequate judicial response, and the limited capacity of legal measures alone to address labour income inequalities. Therefore, she stressed the importance of examining how labour income and multiple discrimination manifest in employment relations within the context of EU anti-discrimination law and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, using statistical data based on gender, age, and other grounds of discrimination.