Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 02/26/2015

Subject: The Court affirmed that Directive 2000/78/EC on equal treatment in employment and occupation does not preclude national legislation from providing that an employer must, upon termination of the employment relationship of a salaried employee who has been continuously employed in the same undertaking for 12, 15 or 18 years, pay an amount equivalent to one, two or three months’ salary respectively, unless the salaried employee is entitled to receive a State retirement pension upon termination of employment to the extent that that legislation is both objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim relating to employment and labour market policy as well as constituting an appropriate and necessary means of achieving that aim.

Parties: Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark

Classification: Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination - Solidarity - Art. 34 Social security

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