31As the Court has held, the scope of Directive 2000/78 must be understood, in the light of its Article 3(1)(c) and 3(3), read in conjunction with recital 13 in its preamble, as excluding social security or social protection schemes, the benefits of which are not equivalent to ‘pay’ within the meaning given to that term for the application of Article 157 TFEU (Maruko, paragraph 41, and Case C-147/08 Römer [2011] ECR I-3591, paragraph 32).
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