Brussels, 13/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - The collective agreement in force in Germany which forces airline pilots to retire at 60 constitutes discrimination on grounds of age - a ban, pure and simple, on piloting an aircraft after that age goes beyond that which is necessary to ensure air traffic safety.
That, in short, is the judgment handed down by the Court of Justice of the EU on Tuesday 13 September in case C-447/09. The Court was responding to the German Federal Labour Court...