Littler Mendelson PC | European Union, France | 25 Sep 2023
The French Civil High Court recently issued five noteworthy decisions on employees’ entitlement to accrue paid leave. The French Labor Code requires…
GVZH Advocates | European Union, Malta | 11 Sep 2023
The EU Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC) was transposed into Maltese legislation by virtue of the Organisation of Working Time Regulations…
Arletti & Partners | European Union, Italy | 9 Mar 2023
The judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-477/21 aims to provide an important clarification regarding the distinction between the right to daily…
3PB Barristers | European Union, United Kingdom | 8 Feb 2023
Following the Supreme Court's judgment in Harpur Trust v Brazel (see our case summary here), the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial…
Osborne Clarke | Germany | 8 Dec 2022
Das Bundesarbeitsgericht hat in seiner Entscheidung vom 13. September 2022 (1 ABR 22/21) die aus § 3 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 ArbSchG folgende Pflicht zur…
Advant Beiten | European Union, Germany | 22 Aug 2022
Federal Labour Court of 16 August 2022 in Case No. 9 AZR 76/22 (A) The Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, BAG) submitted a question to the…
Lewis Silkin LLP | United Kingdom | 27 Jul 2022
The Supreme Court has ruled that the paid holiday entitlement of part-year workers should not be pro-rated for the weeks that they do not usually work. This means that the 12.07% method for calculating the holiday pay hours of casual workers on permanent contracts is no longer a valid approach. Now may be a good time for the government to consider allowing rolled-up but separately itemised......
Lewis Silkin LLP | United Kingdom | 9 Feb 2022
In a decision with major implications across the gig economy and beyond, the Court of Appeal has ruled that workers who were incorrectly classified as independent contractors and were not paid for holiday can claim compensation for the whole period of their engagement. The question of how much compensation a worker is entitled to in this situation has been considered in several recent cases.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | European Union, United Kingdom | 5 Oct 2021
Absence of appeal in unfair dismissal cases, the concept of "working time" under the Working Time Directive and part‑time workers. The Court of…
Mette Klingsten Advokatfirma | Denmark, European Union | 5 Jan 2021
De danske regler om arbejdstid bygger hovedsageligt på EU’s arbejdstidsdirektiv og på arbejdsmiljøloven. Herudover er der i en række kollektive…