Brussels, 22/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - National rules which, to promote employment of younger people, allow the dismissal of workers who have acquired the right to draw their retirement pension, when women acquire this right at an age five years younger than men, constitute discrimination directly based on gender which is prohibited under European law on equal treatment of men and women (Directive 76/207/EEC).
That was the substance of the judgment handed down by the Court of Justice in...