Ligebehandlingsnævnet, acting on behalf of A v HK/Danmark

Subject Matter

DISCRIMINATION — Age — Employment — Complainant elected president of Danish trade union — Union’s statutes providing age limit for person standing for election as president — Danish equal treatment board upholding complainant’s claim that subject to age discrimination when considered too old to stand for re-election — Whether “employment, … self-employment or … occupation” including post of president of trade union elected by members — Whether “involvement” in organisation of workers including standing for election to office of president of trade union — Council Directive 2000/78/EC, art 3(1)(a), (d)

(Case C-587/20); EU:C:2022:419; [2022] ICR 1099; [2022] WLR(D) 245, ECJ