59As regards the question put by the national court concerning the difference in treatment, from the point of view of termination payments, between workers who take parental leave and those who perform military or civilian service, it must be recalled that the principle of equal pay enshrined in Article 141 EC and Directive 75/117, like the principle of nondiscrimination of which it is a specific expression, assumes that the male and female workers whom it benefits are in comparable situations (see Case C-218/98 Abdoulaye and Others [1999] ECR I-5723, paragraph 16, and Case C-366/99 Griesmar [2001] ECR I-9383, paragraph 39).
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