EU Antidiscrimination law is at a turning point in the development of its legal standards and their interpretation. It requires internal and external coherence to ensure its meaningful enforcement in the future as a means for social justice. The legal framework has drawn in the past from a more structural view of grounds and concepts of discrimination. Examples from gender and sexual orientation discrimination in employment cases and norms reflect this trend by anchoring relational issues of parenting, social rights and work life balance in the equation of equality law and illustrate the future challenges involved linked to collective norms concluded by the social partners.