CJEU Case C-12/17 / Judgement

Ministerul Justiţiei and Tribunalul Botoşani v Maria Dicu.
Policy area
Employment and social policy
Deciding body type
Court of Justice of the European Union
Deciding body
Court (Grand Chamber)
Type
Decision
Decision date
04/10/2018
ECLI (European case law identifier)
ECLI:EU:C:2018:799
  • CJEU Case C-12/17 / Judgement

    Key facts of the case

    Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Cluj.


    Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Organisation of working time — Directive 2003/88/EC — Right to paid annual leave — Directive 2010/18/EU — Revised Framework Agreement on parental leave — Parental leave not regarded as a period of actual work.

    Outcome of the case

    On those grounds, the Court (Grand Chamber) hereby rules:

    Article 7 of Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time is to be interpreted as not precluding a provision of national law, such as the provision at issue in the main proceedings, which, for the purpose of determining a worker’s entitlement to paid annual leave, as guaranteed by that article for a worker in respect of a given reference period, does not treat the amount of time spent by that worker on parental leave during that reference period as a period of actual work.

  • Paragraphs referring to EU Charter

    25) Moreover, that right, which is enjoyed by all workers, is expressly set out in Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which Article 6(1) TEU recognises as having the same legal value as the Treaties (judgment of 29 November 2017, King, C‑214/16, EU:C:2017:914, paragraph 33 and the case-law cited).

  • Paragraphs referring to EU Charter (original language)