Equal employment opportunity initiatives such as policies, procedures and code of conduct provisions on discrimination, harassment and diversity have long been vital to domestic American employers. Now, with the global economy, the equal employment issue has grown more international than ever before. As US-based multinationals globally align an increasing list of their human resources policies and "offerings," cross-border efforts at ensuring equal employment opportunities become increasingly vital.

But America's laws on employment discrimination, harassment and diversity are unique in the world. The means that American employers' domestic US EEO programs, tools and code of conduct provisions can seem out-of-step with the local discriminationrelated initiatives of local employers in most jurisdictions outside the US.

This article is a toolkit for a US-based multinational headquarters that needs to expand or improve its EEO (discrimination, harassment, diversity) initiatives regionally or worldwide. In part 1 we address global discrimination programs generally and we then cover two particularly-troublesome discrimination sub-topics—global age discrimination issues and global pay discrimination issues. In part 2 we address global initiatives for combating workplace harassment. Finally, in part 3, we address global workplace initiatives regarding diversity.