Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 12/21/2016

Subject: The Court affirmed that Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation does not preclude a national collective labour agreement by which an employee who benefits from account being taken of periods of school education for the purpose of his classification in the salary steps is subject to a longer period of advancement between the first and second salary step, as long as that extension applies to every employee benefiting from the inclusion of those periods, including retroactively to those having already reached the next steps

Parties: Bowman

Classification: Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination - Solidarity - Art. 28 Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: collective agreements

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