The ECJ has held that a collective agreement prohibiting airline pilots from working after the age of 60 is incompatible with EU law and constitutes age discrimination.
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In these joined decisions, the ECJ has held that a term in a collective agreement which provides that the pay of a public sector employee is determined by reference to their age is unlawful.
This ECJ decision appears to suggest that costs alone will not be sufficient to justify discrimination.
The ECJ rules that a default retirement provision in the Bulgarian Labour Code may be justified.
A Danish law providing for severance payments for employees, but which excluded those who had attained pension age, constituted direct age discrimination.
The ECJ has held that a German law allowing compulsory retirement at 65 (state pension age) was justified age discrimination.
A German law restricting the minimum periods of notice for those aged under 25 was found to be discriminatory and unjustified.
The ECJ has given its judgment on a German law setting a maximum age limit of 68 for dentists to be accredited to work in the German national health service.
The ECJ has given their judgement on a German law restricting applications to the fire service to those under 30.
The ECJ rule that an Austrian law which mandated lower pay for younger civil servants was not proportionate and therefore not justified under the Framework Directive.
ECJ confirms that mandatory retirement is not unlawful.
The European Court of Justice has decided that national laws on compulsory retirement at a particular age must be justified in order to be lawful.
German survivor's pension claim rejected by the ECJ.
In general, employers do not need specifically to justify using length of service to calculate pay, according to the ECJ in Cadman v Health and Safety Executive.
A German law providing older fixed term workers with fewer legal protections than their younger counterparts was unlawful age discrimination.