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ECJ rules Spanish “breastfeeding” law unjustified

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Spain
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  • October 22 2010

In Spain female employees are allowed to take time off work - up to an hour during the day or a half-hour reduction in the working day - to feed a baby under nine months of age

German compulsory retirement age is lawful, says ECJ

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • October 22 2010

Earlier this month the ECJ gave a welcome boost to employers looking to retain a contractual retirement age when it confirmed that a provision in a collective agreement requiring employees to retire at 65 was lawful

Salary sacrifice VAT’s all folks?

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • September 24 2010

A recent ruling of the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") means that employers will have to account for VAT on retail vouchers provided to employees under salary sacrifice arrangements (Astra Zeneca UK Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Case C-4009

Service-related statutory notice provision held to be discriminatory

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • February 25 2010

The notice periods to be given by employers terminating an employee's employment under German law are regulated in Paragraph 622(2) of the German Civil Code

“Having a sickly time. weather awful...”

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 29 2009

The recent European Court of Justice decision in Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA that a worker who is sick during his statutory annual leave is entitled to take a replacement period of leave at a later date (even outside the current leave year) has caused much consternation amongst employers and HR teams in particular, not the least because of the potential for abuse and the additional cost implications

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