CELEX: 62010CN0298
Language: en
Date: 2010-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-298/10: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesarbeitsgericht (Germany) lodged on 16 June 2010 — Land Berlin v Alexander Mai

25.9.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 260/4
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesarbeitsgericht (Germany) lodged on 16 June 2010 — Land Berlin v Alexander Mai
   (Case C-298/10)
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   2010/C 260/04
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Bundesarbeitsgericht
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Land Berlin
   
      Defendant: Alexander Mai
   
      Question referred
   
   Taking into account the right of parties to a collective agreement to collective bargaining which is guaranteed by primary law (now Article 28 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, ‘CFREU’), does a collective pay agreement for public sector employees, which, as in Paragraph 27 of the Bundes-angestelltentarifvertrag (Federal collective agreement for contractual public sector employees, ‘BAT’) in conjunction with the Vergütungstarifvertrag (collective pay agreement) No 35 under the BAT, determines basic pay in individual salary groups by age categories, infringe the primary-law prohibition of age discrimination (now Article 21(1) of the CFREU) as given expression by Directive 2000/78/EC? (1)
   
   
      (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.