Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 03/10/2011

Subject: The Court, interpreting the Framework Agreement on fixed-term work annexed to Council Directive 1999/70/EC, affirmed that the concept of ‘a close objective connection with a previous employment contract of indefinite duration concluded with the same employer’, provided for in Paragraph 14(3) of the German Law on part-time employment and fixed-term employment contracts must be applied to situations in which a fixed-term contract has not been immediately preceded by a contract of indefinite duration concluded with the same employer and an interval of several years separates those contracts, where, for that entire period, the initial employment relationship continued for the same activity, with the same employer, by means of an uninterrupted succession of fixed-term contracts. It is for the national court, to the fullest extent possible, to interpret the relevant provisions of national law in such a way as to comply with the Framework Agreement.

Parties: Deutsche Lufthansa

Classification: Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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