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Age discrimination

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • 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

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

Workers can postpone annual leave if they fall sick

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • 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

ECJ case watch

  • Squire Sanders
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  • 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

Courts required to assess of their own motion whether terms fair under UTCCR 1999

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 29 2009

In a reference from the Spanish courts in the case of Asturcom Telecomunicaciones SL v Maria Cristina Rodriguez Nogueira, the ECJ has considered whether, in proceedings involving a term in a consumer contract, a national court must consider of its own motion whether that term is unfair within the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Directive (9313EEC) (the Directive

High Court case offers insight into application of Rome II

  • RPC
  • -
  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 31 2010

Jacobs v Motor Insurers' Bureau is the first High Court case to consider EU Regulation 8642007 - known as Rome II - since it came into effect in January 2009

Worker can defer annual leave until after period of sick leave: case law update: Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA

  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • November 17 2009

Article 7 of the Working Time Directive (which applies to all European Union Member States) entitles all workers to a minimum of four weeks’ paid annual leave per year

ECJ rules that outsourced investment advisory services are exempt from VAT

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • Belgium, European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 8 2013

On 7 March 2013, the European Union Court of Justice (the "ECJ") released its decision in GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommunikation mbH v. Finanzamt

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