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The ECJ has ruled that a German law providing for a default retirement age to be set by collective agreement, and the collective agreement setting that age at 65, were justified
Two recent decisions highlight the risks in curtailing redundancy consultation in order to dismiss prior to the employee accruing enhanced pension rights
Employers may have to compensate an unfairly dismissed employee for the ongoing loss of a final salary pension scheme, even if the employee obtains a new job with a higher salary (but money purchase pension) which more than offsets the value of the pension loss
