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At 63, Jean-Luc Lehocq still has the energy of a young man. Its battle four years ago against his former employer has not met its moral or its vitality. "I fought all my life. And even if it be against a juggernaut like EDF, it does not scare me! In April 2007, counsel for RTE (electricity transmission) a subsidiary of EDF, learns that he will be put into compulsory retirement, approaching his sixtieth birthday. Management based on a decree of 1954, now repealed, which allows companies that are "status", such as EDF, to be inactive employees from 55 or 60 years without their consent. "This decree was a godsend for EDF! This gets rid of older cheaply. In a country where companies prefer to make to young workers, less paid and more malleable, that could be better? "But this head-on-Martignas Jalle, in Gironde, asks remain in office. "We must open our eyes, our society today is more than the 1950! At 60, I still had two children and a loan repayment. Under these conditions, pass of 4,200 € to 2,300 € per month, it complicates things ... "My goal is to return to work" TEN remains deaf to its demands, the sexagenarian decides to rely on justice. The devil then accumulate: the overseers give it wrong, as the appeals court in Bordeaux in October 2009. "I have not given up, I knew I'd end up winning," says the retiree with aplomb. The determination paid on 16 February, the Supreme Court agrees with him. "It relied on a 2000 European directive which condemns discrimination at work, including age-related," said his lawyer, Michael Engraved. "This decision will set a precedent and thousands of workers thrown out against their will will be able to complain," says Jean-Luc Lehocq. Fifty retired RTE, in the same situation, have already been contacted. There remains one final step: the referral of his case before the Court of Appeal of Toulouse. The former employee is confident: "I will ask for compensation, of course, but especially my reinstatement in the company, because I have not lost sight of my goal: to return to work! "The" sunset clauses "banned since 2000 1954. Several decrees allow "enterprises to status" (SNCF, RATP, EDF, Air France ...) to retired employees without their consent at 55 or 60 years, according to the drudgery. They are called "sunset clauses". 2000. A European Directive prohibiting discrimination in the workplace, including age-related. It is now illegal to prematurely retire an employee, even If the Decrees of 1954 still exist. 2008. France revokes the texts of 1954. The employer can not impose the departure to its employees because of their age. 2009. For the first time an appeals court sided with an employee who retired from office in 2005, at age 55 by the SNCF. 2010. Since 1 January 2010, the age of retirement of office is fixed at 70. Before that age, the liquidation of retirement is the only employee choice http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/societe/ces-salaries-retraite-contre-leur-gre-76269.html