ECJ 23 September 2020, Case C-777/18 (Vas Megyei Kormányhivatal (Soins de santé transfrontaliers)), Free Movement, Social Insurance

WO - v - Vas Megyei Kormányhivatal, Hungarian case

2020/17 Capping of redundancy allowance in view of (future) entitlement to early retirement pension (NL)

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has quashed a verdict of the Court of Appeal that held that a social plan provision stipulating the capping of a redundancy allowance in view of an entitlement to early retirement pension was invalid because of age discrimination. According to the Supreme Court, a more marginal justification test should have been applied to a social plan. The Court of Appeal, moreover, did not consider all the legitimate aims it specified and should also have taken additional social plan measures as well as pension measures from the past into account. By not doing so, it was not properly examined whether the social plan constituted age discrimination.

2020/17 Capping of redundancy allowance in view of (future) entitlement to early retirement pension (NL)

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has quashed a verdict of the Court of Appeal that held that a social plan provision stipulating the capping of a redundancy allowance in view of an entitlement to early retirement pension was invalid because of age discrimination. According to the Supreme Court, a more marginal justification test should have been applied to a social plan. The Court of Appeal, moreover, did not consider all the legitimate aims it specified and should also have taken additional social plan measures as well as pension measures from the past into account. By not doing so, it was not properly examined whether the social plan constituted age discrimination.

ECJ 16 July 2020, Case C-610/18 (AFMB and Others), Social Insurance

AFMB Ltd and Others - v - Raad van bestuur van de Sociale verzekeringsbank, Dutch case

ECJ 16 July 2020, Case C-610/18 (AFMB and Others), Social Insurance

AFMB Ltd and Others - v - Raad van bestuur van de Sociale verzekeringsbank, Dutch case

ECJ 30 April 2020, Joined Cases C-168/19 and C-169/19 (Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale), Pension, Other forms of discrimination

HB - v - Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) (C-168/19); IC - v - Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) (C-169/19), Italian case

ECJ 30 April 2020, Joined Cases C-168/19 and C-169/19 (Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale), Pension, Other forms of discrimination

HB - v - Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) (C-168/19); IC - v - Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) (C-169/19), Italian case

ECJ 23 April 2020, Case C-710/18 (Land Niedersachsen (Périodes antérieures d’activité pertinente)), Other forms of free movement, Terms of employment

WN - v - Land Niedersachsen, German case

ECJ 23 April 2020, Case C-710/18 (Land Niedersachsen (Périodes antérieures d’activité pertinente)), Other forms of free movement, Terms of employment

WN - v - Land Niedersachsen, German case

ECJ 2 April 2020, Case C-802/18 (Caisse pour l'avenir des enfants), Social Insurance

Caisse pour l’avenir des enfants - v - FV and GW, Luxembourg case