Disparity of pension benefits

Differential of pension benefits available to male or female nurses when retiring at age 55 (benefiting female nurses) was not discriminatory. This was in relation to the temporal limitation embodied in protocol 2 concerning article 119 of the EU treaty, sanctioned by the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Community in Barber v Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Group (1990) allowing disparities relating to the age of men or women applied to the period before May 1990.