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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12733

4 June 2021
Contents Publication in full By article 22 / 31
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Gender equality
Equal pay for men and women applies within a company for “work of equal value”, rules CJEU
Brussels, 03/06/2021 (Agence Europe)

The Court of Justice of the EU noted in a judgment delivered on Thursday 3 June (case C-624/19), that Article 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU) could be invoked for pay differentials between women and men working for the same undertaking and performing “work of equal value”. 

It was ruling on a dispute between a group of about 6,000 current or former employees and Tesco Stores in the UK. The employees sued Tesco Stores Group in Watford Employment Tribunal in the UK...

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COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
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EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
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