"The complainant is an enterprise involved in automotive supplies which concluded several fixed-term employment contracts in February 2003 with previously unemployed individuals without having objective reasons for the fixed term of employment. According to the version of § 14.3 sentence 4 of the Law on Part-Time Working and Fixed-Term Contracts which was applicable at that time, it was possible to deviate from the principle that objective reasons are required to give rise to a fixed term of employment if the employee had already reached the age of 52 on commencement of the employment relationship.
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