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OM_EELC_2016_02.indd 3-4 25-7-2016 15:29:25 Editorial 110 2016/28 Employee compensated for employer’s refusal 81 Breaking up is hard to do to move her to another office nearer home, as advised by the occupational doctor (FR) Case Reports Delphine Levy Karcenty 82 2016/19 Reference in a termination letter to ‘retirement’ can cost the employer dearly (GE) 112 2016/29 Prohibition on dismissing union leaders, even Paul Schreiner and Dagmar Hellenkemper for reasons unrelated to union activity, is unconstitutional (RO) 85 2016/20 May employees move up the salary ladder Andreea Suciu more slowly at the start of their career? (AT) Marta J. Glowacka 116 2016/30 Members of a Board of Directors are ‘individual contractors’, not self-employed 89 2016/21 The attitude/behaviour of an employer ‘entrepreneurs’ (PL) towards an employee who partially resumes work after Marcin Wujczyk long-term incapacity can constitute harassment and discrimination (BE) 120 2016/31 Supreme Court: employer cannot dismiss Isabel Plets and Karl Goethals employee for exercising freedom of speech (SL) Nives Slemenjak 92 2016/22 Failing to offer voluntary redundancy because it triggered a right to early retirement is directly 123 2016/32 Window sticker sufficient to allow evidence discriminatory (UK) collected by surveillance camera (SP) Sarah O’Brien Sonia Cortes 95 2016/23 Are employers obliged to provide childcare 127 2016/33 Supreme Court clarifies rules on redundancy vouchers during maternity leave? (UK) selection methods (NO) Catherine Hayes Tore Lerheim and Ole Kristian Olsby 97 2016/24 Claimant required to show the ‘reason why’ 130 2016/34 Transferee has no claim against transferor for the underlying reason behind a practice was indirectly paid leave accrued before transfer (NL) discriminatory (UK) Amber Zwanenburg Anna Bond ECJ Court Watch 101 2016/25 Prohibition against displaying religious Rulings symbols breaches anti-discrimination legislation for 133 ECJ 21 January 2016, case C-515/14 (Cyprus), lack of proportionality (BE) freedom of movement Gautier Busschaert 133 ECJ 21 January 2016, case C-453/14 (Knauer), free 104 2016/26 Dismissal of an employee with a disabled movement – social security child was not discriminatory by association (DK) Mariann Norrbom 134 ECJ 25 February 2016, case C-299/14 (Garcia-Nieto), free movement – social security 106 2016/27 Employers must compensate employees separately for restricting their right to work for others, 136 ECJ 7 April 2016, case C-5/15 (Büyüktipi), legal not only after, but also during their employment (LI) expenses insurance Inga Klimašauskienė 137 ECJ 7 April 2016, case C-284/15 (ONEm), free movement – social insurance 139 ECJ 7 April 2016, case C-315/14 (Marchon 148 Case C-631/15. Fixed-term work Germany), commercial agency 148 Case C-668/15. Racial discrimination 140 ECJ (Grand Chamber) 19 April 2016, case C-441/14 (Ajos), age discrimination 149 Cases C-680/15 and C-681/15. Transfer of undertakings 143 ECJ 7 April 2016, case C-460/14 (Massar), legal insurance 149 Case C-20/16. Free movement – Tax 144 ECJ 2 June