An employment tribunal ruling in favour of a gay couple fighting for pension rights could clear the way for a challenge in the European Court of Justice, a lawyer claims.
Jennie Kreser, pensions partner at Silverman Sherliker, said if the couple win the ruling it could challenge rules stating widowed civil partners are not entitled to pension benefits accrued by their partners before 2005. Civil rights organisation Liberty brought legal action on behalf of Ian Waddy, 73, and his partner Trevor Skipp, 65, against Waddy's former employer Foster Wheeler. Waddy worked for the global engineering firm until 1999 and receives a pension from the company. He has lived with Skipp for 40 years and the couple entered a civil partnership in 2006. Foster Wheeler'...
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