AUSTRIA MINES CASE
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLAUSTRIA should allow women to work in its mines, an advocate general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has concluded. If approved - as is expected - by the full court, the ruling would be a precedent EU-wide, although Britain has allowed women to work in its mines since 1989. Advocate general Francis Jacobs said the court should order Austria to change its laws, as they break the European Union (EU) equal treatment directive. He said Austria had produced no evidence showing mine work affected men and women differently in health terms and so ...
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