Prohibition of awarding specific roles to retired employees and discrimination on grounds of age

The Court of Justice of the EU on 2 April 2020 issued a judgement in case C-670/18, CO vs. Comune di Gesturi, concerning the issue of discrimination on grounds of age. According to the ruling EU law does not preclude national legislation prohibiting public administrative authorities from awarding analysis and consultancy roles to retired persons in so far as, first, that legislation pursues a legitimate employment policy and labour market objective and, second, the means deployed to achieve that objective are appropriate and necessary.