Study fees for seniors do not represent an offence against the general equal treatment law

(openPR) - the Administrative Court gel churches has with judgement of 29.11.2006 (Az. 4 K 1462/06) decided that the introduction of a so-called senior study fee not against the AGG offence. The court stated that in the collection of one to the completion 60. Lebensjahres coupled fee one on the age which is based unequal treatment are present directly. The goal pursued with the regulation represents however an objective and appropriate justification of the unequal treatment which is based on the characteristic of the age; because the limited and cost-intensive study place capacities are to be free of charge predominantly reserved the studying for the acquisition of a first occupation-qualifying study conclusion, with which it would go around the entrance into the working life. For over sixty-year old students this aspect is usually not given, on the contrary a study in the completely outweighing number of the cases from purely private interest of education and often only after completion of the professional activity one operate. This fact justifies it to raise from over sixty-year old students the study fees to.

Attorney Christian upper weather of the Kanzlei upper weather & Olfen from Hamburg for this: “The decision shows that the general equal treatment law quite has regulation mechanisms, in order to bring reasonable decisions out. Even if in individual cases a student can use the knowledge acquired in the study beyond the 60 still in an occupation, the exception represents nevertheless.”

Upper weather & Olfen of attorneys Hamburg
Mönckebergstrasse 11
20095 Hamburg
Tel. 040/2716960
Partner:
Christian upper weather
owt@oberwetter-olfen.de

The Kanzlei upper weather and Olfen from Hamburg is active in the ranges of the industrial law, the IT-right and the tax law. Attorney Christian upper weather is an author of a comment to the general equal treatment law.

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