Birds Eye Walls Ltd v. Friedel M. Roberts) (8), the Court has also specified that it is not contrary to Article 119 of the Treaty, when calculating the amount of a bridging pension which is paid by an employer to male and female employees who have taken early retirement on grounds of ill health and which is intended to compensate, in particular, for loss of income resulting from the fact that they have not yet reached the age required for payment of the State pension which they will subsequently receive and to reduce the amount of the bridging pension accordingly, even though, in the case of men and women aged between 60 and 65, the result is that a female ex-employee receives a smaller bridging pension than that paid to her male counterpart, the difference being equal to the amount of the State pension to which she is entitled as from the age of 60 in respect of the periods of service completed with that employer;
Birds Eye Walls Ltd. v. Friedel M. Roberts) [8] Sodišče opredelilo tudi, da ni v nasprotju s členom 119 Pogodbe, da se pri izračunu zneska premostitvene pokojnine, ki jo zaposlenim moškim in ženskam plačuje delodajalec zaradi predčasne upokojitve iz zdravstvenih razlogov, namenjena pa je zlasti nadomestilu izgube dohodka, zato ker oseba še ni dosegla zahtevane starosti za svojo prihodnjo nacionalno pokojnino, premostitvena pokojnina ustrezno zniža, čeprav pri osebah med šestdesetim in petinšestdesetim letom bivša zaposlena delavka prejema nižjo premostitveno pokojnino kakor primerljiva oseba moškega spola, razlika pa je enaka znesku nacionalne pokojnine, do katere je upravičena od šestdesetega leta za zaposlitev pri tem delodajalcu;