Directive 2000/78/EC (the “Employment Equality Directive”) focuses on discrimination in employment and occupation, as well as vocational training, and covers direct and indirect discrimination, as well as harassment and instructions to discriminate, on the grounds of religion or belief, disability, age and sexual orientation. On 29 May, EMPL will discuss the draft report, which looks at the remaining gaps in the implementation of the Directive and analyses the obstacles preventing victims of discrimination from benefitting of the legal protection and remedies provided for by Union legislation. The Rapporteur, Ádám Kósa (EPP, HU) also pays attention to the situation in the Member States more severely hit by the economic crisis and high unemployment levels.