EU COURT RULES FOR EQUALITY IN PRE-RETIREMENT EXTRAS.

In a judgement handed down on 13 July, the European Court of Justice said that women should receive pre-retirement or redundancy payments until the same age as men, regardless of the national retirement age. Case C-166/99 pitted Marthe Defrene against the Belgian airline Sabena. Ms Defreyn became an employee of Sabena in 1960 and was granted a pre-retirement payment when she was made redundant in 1984. However, Sabena only paid the unemployment benefit supplement until she reached the age of 60 (retirement age for...