Press Release: Judgment in Case C-267/12. Frédéric Hay v Crédit agricole mutuel de Charente-Maritime et des Deux-Sèvres

Employees who enter into a civil partnership with a partner of the same sex must be granted the same benefits as those granted to their colleagues upon their marriage, where marriage is not possible for homosexual couples.

The refusal to grant them those benefits constitutes direct discrimination based on sexual orientation.

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