CELEX: 62019CA0511
Language: en
Date: 2021-04-15 00:00:00
Title: Case C-511/19: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 15 April 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Areios Pagos — Greece) — AB v Olympiako Athlitiko Kentro Athinon — Spyros Louis (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 2000/78/EC — Principle of equal treatment in employment and occupation — Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age — Workers placed under a labour reserve system until termination of their contract of employment — Wage reduction and reduction or loss of severance pay — System applicable to public-sector workers close to full-time retirement — Reduction of public-sector wage costs — Article 6(1) — Legitimate social policy objective — Economic crisis)

7.6.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/6
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 15 April 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Areios Pagos — Greece) — AB v Olympiako Athlitiko Kentro Athinon — Spyros Louis
      (Case C-511/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Social policy - Directive 2000/78/EC - Principle of equal treatment in employment and occupation - Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age - Workers placed under a labour reserve system until termination of their contract of employment - Wage reduction and reduction or loss of severance pay - System applicable to public-sector workers close to full-time retirement - Reduction of public-sector wage costs - Article 6(1) - Legitimate social policy objective - Economic crisis)
      (2021/C 217/07)
      Language of the case: Greek
      
         Referring court
      
      Areios Pagos
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: AB
      
         Defendant: Olympiako Athlitiko Kentro Athinon — Spyros Louis
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 2 and Article 6(1) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation under which public-sector workers who, during a given period, fulfil the conditions for drawing a full pension are placed under a labour reserve system until the termination of their contract of employment, which entails a reduction in their pay, the loss of their possible advancement and the partial or even total cancellation of the severance pay to which they would have been entitled on termination of their employment relationship, where that legislation pursues a legitimate employment-policy objective and the means to achieve that objective are appropriate and necessary.
      
         (1)  OJ C 319, 23.9.2019.