Ruling Defends Caregiver

BRUSSELS -- The European Union's highest court ruled that laws protecting the disabled from discrimination in the workplace also extend to employees who look after a disabled person at home.

Thursday's decision in the case of a United Kingdom woman, who claimed her employer mistreated her because of her need to look after a disabled son, represents the second time in a week that the Court of Justice in Luxembourg has widened the scope of the EU's employment-discrimination law.

Last week, the court found that a Belgian garage-door installer broke EU law when he said publicly that he didn't want ...