Judgment, 22 January 1987.

Abstract

The Italian Constitutional Court held that a law prohibiting employers from discriminating on the basis of sex could be invoked against an employer when a third party causes the employer to dismiss a female employee because of her sex, even though this discriminatory motive on the part of the third party is unknown to the employer. It also held that Article 18 of Law No. 300/70, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of politics, religion, or participation in a labor union, should be read in connection with other statutes and interpreted as prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex.