27Restricting severance allowance to only those workers who, on termination of the employment relationship, are not entitled to a State retirement pension does not appear unreasonable in the light of the objective pursued by the legislature of providing increased protection for workers for whom it is difficult to find new employment as a result of their length of service in an undertaking. Paragraph 2a(2) of the Law on salaried employees also makes it possible to limit the scope for abuse by preventing workers who intend to retire from claiming a severance allowance which is intended to support them while seeking new employment (see, to that effect, judgment in Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark, EU:C:2010:600, paragraph 34).
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