CELEX: 62010CN0086
Language: en
Date: 2010-02-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-86/10: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Arbeitsgericht Siegburg (Germany) lodged on 12 February 2010 — Hüseyin Balaban v Zelter GmbH

1.5.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 113/24
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Arbeitsgericht Siegburg (Germany) lodged on 12 February 2010 — Hüseyin Balaban v Zelter GmbH
   (Case C-86/10)
   2010/C 113/38
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Arbeitsgericht Siegburg
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Hüseyin Balaban
   
      Defendant: Zelter GmbH
   
      Question referred
   
   Should Article 6 of Council Directive 2000/78/EC (1) of 27 November 2000 be interpreted as precluding national legislation which, in the selection of workers to be dismissed on operational grounds, allows age groups to be formed in order to ensure a balanced age structure and to ensure that the selection between comparable workers will be made in such a way that the ratio of the number of workers to be selected from the respective age groups to the total number of comparable workers to be dismissed corresponds to the ratio of the number of workers employed in the respective age groups to the number of all comparable workers of the undertaking?
   
      (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).