Court of Justice 16 December 1999, C-236/98 (Jämställdhetsombudsmannen v Örebro läns landsting.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1. In this case, the Arbetsdomstol (Labour Court), Sweden, has referred the question essentially whether, in comparing the pay of a man and a woman doing work of equal value for the purposes of Article 119 of the EC Treaty (now, after amendment, Article 141 EC) and the Equal Pay Directive, account should be taken of the fact that