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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12898

25 February 2022
Contents Publication in full By article 24 / 25
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Social
Court of Justice condemns Spanish legislation that excludes domestic workers from unemployment benefits and constitutes indirect discrimination on grounds of sex
Brussels, 24/02/2022 (Agence Europe)

On Thursday 24 February the Court of Justice of the European Union condemned (Case C-389/20), the special Spanish social security system for domestic workers - almost exclusively women - which does not give these workers the possibility to contribute to unemployment benefits and therefore effectively excludes them from receiving these benefits. According to the European judges, this exclusion constitutes indirect discrimination on the basis of sex in access to these benefits.

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