HOT NEWS 16 October 2007
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| Palacios v Cortefiel Servicios SA
The ECJ have handed down a crucial decision in the above case concerning mandatory retirement ages that will determine the outcome of Heyday's challenge in the ECJ over the Government's setting of a mandatory retirement age of 65. The ECJ have held that the EU Equal Treatment Framework Directive does not prevent member states from setting mandatory retirement ages. Although holding that a general mandatory retirement age did fall within the scope of what the Directive prohibited, the ECJ considered that a mandatory retirement age was a proportionate means of promoting employment opportunities and reducing unemployment, and therefore justified.
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