Italian legislation which fixed a maximum age limit of 30 for participation in a competition to recruit police commissioners was age discrimination that could not be justified, and so was incompatible with EU law.
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The ECJ has ruled that an age restriction on eligibility for election to the position of sector convenor in a workers’ organisation is covered by the Equal Treatment Framework Directive.
A Greek labour reserve system did discriminate against older workers, but this was justified as it met employment policy objectives in the context of the acute economic crisis facing Greece at the time.
The European Court of Justice found that the exclusion of retired employees from a recruitment exercise was indirect age discrimination but would be permissible if it was justified.
In a surprising decision, the European Court of Justice has ruled that two-tier pay scales for Irish teachers are not discriminatory on age grounds.
The ECJ has held that EU law setting an age limit of 65 years old for pilots was not age discriminatory and was justified.
Italian law requires "on call contracts" (zero hours contracts) to be subject to objective conditions, unless the worker is either under 25 years of age or over 45 years of age. This case considered whether this law is age discriminatory.
The ECJ has ruled that a police force was justified in setting an age limit of 35 years old for new recruits.
Was it age discrimination for a Finnish law to tax pension income at a higher rate than earned income?
The ECJ says that a national court must disapply principles of national law that conflict with the general principle of EU law prohibiting age discrimination, and cannot prioritise principles of legal certainty or legitimate expectations instead.
The ECJ rules that it was not discrimination to withhold a 10% termination payment to a "young person" but make that payment to older persons.
The ECJ has ruled on a German pay scheme where those over 35 years of age received greater pay compared to younger colleagues.
The ECJ has found Austrian civil service pension law to be objectively justified.
The ECJ rules that an age limit of 30 for recruits as local police officers in Spain was unjustified age discrimination.
A pay scheme for Austrian civil servants which was amended because of age discrimination, was still age discriminatory.
ECJ rules transitional pay arrangement that retained age based pay awards was justified.
Danish law which gave 3 years pay to civil servants, but not those of pensionable age, was age discrimination.
Pension scheme that paid more to older people could be justified
A provision which reduced compensation for workers aged over 54 by taking into account the earliest date from which they could receive a state pension, was not unlawful age discrimination.
Hungarian law allowing retirement of judges, prosecutors and notaries at age 70 was not justified and was unlawful age discrimination.