Excepţiile de la principiul nediscriminării pe criteriul vârstei în raporturile de muncă

drd. ELENA DANIELA OPRESCU*

* Doctorand în cadrul Academiei de Studii Economice Bucureşti; e-mail: elenadanielabogatu@gmail.com

Judecător - Curtea de Apel Bucureşti, Secţia a VII-a pentru cauze privind conflicte de muncă şi asigurări sociale

ABSTRACT

Not all exceptions to the prohibition of age-based discrimination provided by Directive 2000/78/EC have been incorporated into national legislation. Article 5 of the Labor Code, like Article 2 of Government Ordinance No. 137/2000, unlike Article 6 of the directive, does not explicitly state that direct discrimination on the grounds of age can be objectively justified if it pursues a legitimate aim and the means used are proportionate to that aim.

Nevertheless, in labor legislation, we do encounter exceptions to the principle of direct non-discrimination on the grounds of age, similar to those provided by Article 6 of the directive. For example, Article 56 of...