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ECJ rules on pension discrimination

The European Court of Justice has handed down its rulings in six cases on issues relating to sex equality and occupational pension schemes in light of the decision in Barber v Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Group EOR32A. Points of general importance made are that part-time workers may have a right to membership of occupational pension schemes retrospective to 1976, and that employers can reduce benefits once they have been equalised.