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Global employment, pensions and benefits e-bulletin

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia, China, European Union, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam
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  • April 18 2013

A renewed regulatory focus on sham contracting and a court recent decision in ACE Insurance Limited v Trifunovski highlights the need for employers to

General counsel update: 28 February 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Hong Kong, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • February 28 2012

This is the twenty-eighth in our series of General Counsel Updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

Age discrimination: ECJ (in a case referred to it from the Spanish courts) upholds a fixed retirement age

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Spain
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  • December 21 2007

In Palacios v Cortefiel, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considered certain provisions of Spanish law which allowed a retirement age of 65 to be fixed in a collective bargaining agreement

State compulsory retirement provisions must be justified

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • November 1 2007

National laws setting out compulsory retirement ages will be unlawful under EU law unless objectively justified by a legitimate aim