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Accrual of vacation days during sickness - continued

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • August 12 2010

In our newsletter of February 2010 we referred to a recent decision of the European Court of Justice on the accrual of holiday days during sickness

Age discrimination

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 15 2008

The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice has given his opinion in the UK case of Age Concern England v BERR (the Heyday case

Indirect discrimination: protecting religious beliefs - what are employers required to do?

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • March 12 2013

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has given its decision in the cases of four British employees who complained that UK law did not give

Absence due to illness does not result in the forfeiture of holiday entitlements

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • February 19 2009

The current position under German law is that every employee has the right to a minimum of 24 days' paid holiday each year (although agreements can be made to enhance this statutory minimum

Dismissal of female worker for receiving IVF treatment can amount to sex discrimination

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • May 6 2008

In Mayr v Bäckerei und Konditorei Gerhard Flöckner, the ECJ held that women undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment (“IVF”), who have had their ova fertilized but not yet implanted, are not "pregnant", and thus are not protected from dismissal by the EC Pregnant Workers Directive (9285

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) rules in the Laval Case (Vaxholm) collective actions are not excluded from the applicability of community law

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Sweden
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  • February 5 2008

In May 2004, Laval un Partneri Ltd, a Latvian company, posted workers from Latvia to work on building sites in Sweden

Informing and consulting employees in the European Union - failure of the Kingdom of Spain to fulfil its obligations

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Spain
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  • October 9 2007

The Court held that Spain failed to adopt the necessary measures to transpose the Directive 200214CE, establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community

Extent of duty to consult on parent company’s strategic decisions

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Finland, United Kingdom
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  • October 14 2009

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has given its decision in the Finnish case of Akavan etc v Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Commission gives conditional authorisation for public aid to finance La Poste pensions for civil servants

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, France
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  • October 31 2007

Acting under the EC Treaty rules on state aid, the Commission has authorised the aid planned by France for the reform of the arrangements for financing the retirement pensions of civil servants working for La Poste

Akavan Erityisalojen AEK ry and others v Fujitsu Siemens Computers Oy

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • June 15 2009

The ECJ has handed down a judgment regarding the meaning of the phrase "contemplating collective redundancies" in Article 2(1) of the EC Collective Redundancies Directive, and how the collective consultation requirements are affected where the decision-maker is the employer's parent company

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