Keywords
Summary

Keywords

Social policy - Men and women - Access to employment and working conditions - Equal treatment - Abolition of a part-time job on economic grounds - National provision that does not regard part-time workers as comparable with full-time workers for the purposes of selection by an employer on the basis of social criteria - Whether permissible

(Council Directive 76/207, Arts 2(1) and 5(1))

Summary

$$Articles 2(1) and 5(1) of Directive 76/207 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions must be interpreted as not precluding an interpretation of a national rule which proceeds on the general basis that part-time workers are not to be compared with full-time workers when an employer has to proceed to selection on the basis of social criteria when abolishing a part-time job on economic grounds.

( see para. 35 and operative part )