Luxembourg, 06/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - Six Italian universities have been "condemned" for having set up permanent contracts for foreign language teaching assistants without taking into account their length of service. The European Court of Justice emphasised the fact that teaching assistants with ten or twenty years experience were re-employed, on unlimited period contracts, on the same pay as young teaching assistants on their first contract.
In the eyes of the sixth chamber chaired by...