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20 July 2012
Issue: 7523 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Employment

Torsten Hornfeldt v Posten Meddelande AB: C-141/11, [2012] All ER (D) 63 (Jul)

Article 6(1) of Council Directive (EC) 2000/78 did not preclude a national measure which allowed an employer to terminate an employee’s employment contract on the sole ground that the employee had reached the age of 67 and which did not take account of the level of the retirement pension which the person concerned would receive. That measure was objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim relating to employment policy and labour-market policy and constituted an appropriate and necessary means by which to achieve that aim.

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