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Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 7 March 1996. # Edith Freers and Hannelore Speckmann v Deutsche Bundespost. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Arbeitsgericht Bremen - Germany. # Indirect discrimination against women workers - Compensation for attendance at training courses providing members of staff committees with the knowledge necessary for performing their functions. # Case C-278/93.
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 7 March 1996.
Edith Freers and Hannelore Speckmann v Deutsche Bundespost.
Reference for a preliminary ruling: Arbeitsgericht Bremen - Germany.
Indirect discrimination against women workers - Compensation for attendance at training courses providing members of staff committees with the knowledge necessary for performing their functions.
Case C-278/93.
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 7 March 1996.
Edith Freers and Hannelore Speckmann v Deutsche Bundespost.
Reference for a preliminary ruling: Arbeitsgericht Bremen - Germany.
Indirect discrimination against women workers - Compensation for attendance at training courses providing members of staff committees with the knowledge necessary for performing their functions.
Case C-278/93.
Thuarascálacha na Cúirte Eorpaí 1996 I-01165
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:1996:83
«(Indirect discrimination against women workers – Compensation for attendance at training courses providing members of staff committees with the knowledge necessary for performing their functions)»
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(EEC Treaty, Art. 119; Council Directive 75/117)
(EEC Treaty, Art. 119; Council Directive 75/117)
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Sixth Chamber)
7 March 1996 (1)
((Indirect discrimination against women workers – Compensation for attendance at training courses providing members of staff committees with the knowledge necessary for performing their functions))
In Case C-278/93,
REFERENCE to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the Arbeitsgericht Bremen, Germany, for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between Edith Freers, Hannelore Speckmannand
Deutsche Bundespost on the interpretation of Article 119 of the EEC Treaty and of Council Directive 75/117/EEC of 10 February 1975 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the application of the principle of equal pay for men and women (OJ 1975 L 45, p. 19),THE COURT (Sixth Chamber),,
after considering the written observations submitted on behalf of:
having regard to the Report for the Hearing,
after hearing the oral observations of Edith Freers and Hannelore Speckmann, represented by Klaus Lörcher, Justitiar der Deutschen Postgewerkschaft ─ Hauptvorstand, the German Government, represented by Ernst Röder, and the Commission, represented by Horstpeter Kreppel, at the hearing on 28 April 1994,
after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 5 July 1994,
gives the following
On those grounds,
THE COURT (Sixth Chamber),
in answer to the questions referred to it by the Arbeitsgericht Bremen, by order of 5 May 1993, hereby rules:
Kakouris |
Mancini |
Schockweiler |
Kapteyn |
Murray |
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R. Grass |
C.N. Kakouris |
Registrar |
President of the Sixth Chamber |