CELEX: 62013CN0515
Language: en
Date: 2013-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-515/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Østre Landsret (Denmark) lodged on 25 September 2013 — Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark, acting on behalf of Poul Landin v TEKNIQ, acting on behalf of ENCO A/S — VVS

7.12.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 359/5
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Østre Landsret (Denmark) lodged on 25 September 2013 — Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark, acting on behalf of Poul Landin v TEKNIQ, acting on behalf of ENCO A/S — VVS
   (Case C-515/13)
   2013/C 359/06
   Language of the case: Danish
   
      Referring court
   
   Østre Landsret
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark, acting on behalf of Poul Landin
   
      Defendant: TEKNIQ, acting on behalf of ENCO A/S — VVS
   
      Question referred
   
   Is the prohibition of direct discrimination on grounds of age contained in Articles 2 and 6 of Directive 2000/78/EC (1) to be interpreted as precluding a Member State from maintaining a legal situation whereby an employer, upon dismissal of a salaried employee who has been continuously employed in the same undertaking for 12, 15 or 18 years, must, upon termination of the salaried employee’s employment, pay an amount equivalent to one, two or three months’ salary respectively, while this allowance is not to be paid where the salaried employee, upon termination of employment, is entitled to receive a State retirement pension?
   
      (1)  Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (OJ 2000 L 303, p. 16).