Judgment in case C-284/02 - Land Brandenburg v Ursula Sass

References for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesarbeitsgericht (Germany)

Social policy - Male and female workers - Article 141 EC - Equal pay - Directive 76/207/EEC - Equal treatment - Maternity leave - Passage to a higher salary grade - Failure to take account of the whole of a period of maternity leave taken under the legislation of the former German Democratic Republic