A German District Employment Court ruled on 6 June 2015 that a job advertisement which specifically requires applicants to have just finished their commercial training (“Berufsanfänger”), poses an indirect discrimination based on age. The court therefore awarded the plaintiff – a rejected applicant who had around ten years of work experience – damages in the amount of one monthly gross salary of the position in question. Therefore, the requirement of being a young professional should be eliminated in job advertisements.
Germany