Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 12/12/2013

Subject: According to the Court, employees who enter into a civil partnership with a partner of the same sex must be granted the same benefits as those granted to their colleagues upon their marriage, where marriage is not possible for homosexual couples. The refusal to grant them those benefits constitutes direct discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Parties: Frédéric Hay

Classification: Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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