Equal pay: No protection for homosexuals under Community law
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Grant v South-West Trains Ltd [1998] IRLR 206 ECJ (2 other reports)
Community law on sex discrimination and equal pay does not currently cover discrimination based on an individual's sexual orientation, rules the European Court of Justice in Grant v South-West Trains Ltd 17.2.98 Case C-249/96. Accordingly, the refusal by an employer to allow travel concessions to the person of the same sex with whom a worker has a stable relationship, where such concessions are allowed to a worker's spouse or to the person of the opposite sex with whom the worker has a stable relationship outside marriage, does not constitute discrimination prohibited by Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome.
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