Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts Supreme Court (Portugal))

Date: 06/27/2018

Subject: The decision of the Constitutional Court finds the constitutional illegitimacy of article 2(8) of Law 59/2015, on limitation periods – which cannot be interrupted nor suspended – of requests of payments concerning cases of employers’ insolvency, in the light of the norms of Directives 80/987/ECC and 2008/94/EC, as interpreted by the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice, and also recalling the European Social Charter

Parties: Ministério Público

Original language: Portuguese

Classification: Solidarity - Art. 34 Social security

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