Abstract
Instruments explicitly prohibiting age discrimination are a relatively recent phenomenon compared to other suspect grounds in international and European antidiscrimination law. In the domain of employment biographies and employment opportunities, the dominant EU approach has focused on equal treatment of men and women, and gender equality was at the heart of numerous benchmark decisions adopted by the European Court of Justice in order to clarify general legal concepts underlying European equality law. The chapter deals with the legal foundations of the prohibition of age discrimination in employment as a human right issue, and the wide range of exceptions and justifications for age discrimination under European Union law in particular.
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