Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 07/05/2012

Subject: According to the Court declared Directive 2000/78/EC, establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, does not precluding a national measure, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which allows an employer to terminate an employee’s employment contract on the sole ground that the employee has reached the age of 67 and which does not take account of the level of the retirement pension which the person concerned will receive, as that measure is objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim relating to employment policy and labour-market policy and constitutes an appropriate and necessary means by which to achieve that aim.

Parties: Torsten Hörnfeldt

Classification: Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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