Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 05/21/2015

Subject: According to the Court, Directive 92/85/EEC, on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding, precludes a Member State from granting a worker a maternity allowance on the ground that, as an established public servant having obtained non-active status for personal reasons in order to work as a salaried employee, she has not completed, in the context of her work as a salaried employee, the minimum contribution period required under national law in order to be eligible to receive that maternity allowance, even if she has worked for over 12 months immediately prior to the presumed date of confinement

Parties: Charlotte Rosselle

Classification: Solidarity - Art. 31 Working conditions: healthy - Working conditions: safe - Art. 33 Family protection

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