McKechnie v UBM Building Supplies (Southern) Ltd [1991] IRLR 283 EAT

Direct effect of Article 119

Date:

1 July 1991

In McKechnie v UBM Building Supplies (Southern) Ltd (24 April 1991) EOR38D, the EAT holds that a woman made redundant at age 61 had a right under Article 119 of the EEC Treaty to a payment equal to that she would have received had she been a man of the same age and service.