Supreme Court on discriminatory retirement policy

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The Supreme Court recently ruled that a retirement policy which makes redundant all employees who are entitled to early retirement is discriminatory and, as a direct form of age discrimination, cannot be justified by claiming that such a policy amounts to a socially compatible form of redundancy. 

Jakob Widner, ILO Newsletter, December 7, 2016

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