30As is apparent from the request for a preliminary ruling and as has already been held by the Court, a retirement pension like that paid to Austrian federal civil servants under the PG 1965 comes under the notion of ‘pay’ within the meaning of Article 157 TFEU in so far as its amount depends on periods of service and equivalent periods and on the salary received by the civil servant and that pension constitutes a future cash payment, paid by the employer to his employees, as a direct consequence of their employment relationship. Under national law, that pension is regarded as pay which continues to be paid in the context of an employment relationship which continues after the civil servant becomes entitled to retirement benefits (see, to that effect, judgment of 21 January 2015, Felber, C‑529/13, EU:C:2015:20, paragraph 23).
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