COBALT won a discrimination case in the Supreme Court of Estonia
2012 - 01 - 11
COBALT Senior Associate, Triinu Hiob, successfully represented the leading gambling solutions provider Olympic Casino in an employment dispute concerning alleged discrimination based on gender.
On 4 January 2012, the Supreme Court of Estonia announced its final judgment in the said court case, resolving the case in favour of Olympic Casino. The Supreme Court explained that two different types of legal measures applied to two employees cannot be deemed as discrimination if these two employees cannot be considered being comparable persons. Further, there is no discrimination if two employees are indeed treated differently from each other but due to objective reasons that are not related to the gender of the employees.
The ruling in civil case 3-2-1-135-11 is one of the very few Supreme Court judgments in discrimination cases in Estonia, and is thus of utmost significance.