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Age discrimination

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • January 31 2008

In the absence of any ground breaking legislation, age discrimination has probably been the most talked about topic in 2007, at least judging by the amount of column inches devoted to it in employment law publications

Age discrimination: retirement age

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 19 2007

As reported in our newsflash of 16 August 2007, "Heyday" (an organisation backed by the charity Age Concern) is fighting a case against the Government in an attempt to overturn parts of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 including allowing employers to set a compulsory retirement age of 65

ECJ permits default retirement age

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 19 2007

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided in the Spanish case of Palacios v Cortefiel Servicios SA that the EC Equal Treatment Directive (200078EC) does not prohibit Member States from having compulsory retirement ages provided they can be objectively justified

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

Heyday challenge

  • DMH Stallard LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 23 2007

In July 2006 Heyday, an organisation created by and closely associated with Age Concern, issued a judicial review application in the High Court challenging the legality of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations

ECJ case watch

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 4 2007

It looks as though the UK’s mandatory retirement age of 65 and the duty-to-consider procedure under the Age Regulations are set to stay (at least for now) following the European Court of Justice’s judgment in the Spanish age discrimination case of Palacios v Cortefiel Servicios SA

Compulsory retirement ages must be justified

  • Cobbetts LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • December 12 2007

The ECJ has decided in a Spanish case that the European Framework Directive on Equal Treatment does cover compulsory retirement ages

Holiday blues

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 23 2009

The European Court of Justice on 15 September 2009 issued judgment in Pereda, a Spanish case concerning an employee's ability to postpone vacation when sick or injured

Workers can postpone annual leave if they fall sick

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • October 29 2009

In the case of Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") has ruled that where a worker is sick during his annual leave, annual leave must be granted for a different period and, if necessary, outside the relevant holiday year

Swearing at your boss may be OK in Spain!

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Spain, United Kingdom
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  • October 29 2009

Following a decision by Catalunya’s Superior Court of Justice earlier in the year, it seems that serious verbal abuse of a more senior colleague may not always be a ground for dismissal

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