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Archived tracker: CJEU employment and social policy case law 2021-2023: working time, part-time/fixed-term, posting, collective redundancies and transfers, discrimination, social security

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This EU employment and social policy tracker outlines significant cases from 2021 to 2023 across the following themes:

  • working conditions—working hours, part-time and fixed-term arrangements, and posting of workers
  • informing and consulting employees on collective redundancies and company transfers
  • equal treatment and discrimination in the workplace
  • social policy rules and social security coordination

The most recent notable employment and social policy developments are available in Practice Note: EU employment and social policy tracker.

2023 Cases

Case C‑148/22, OP v Commune d’Ans

Judgement date: 28 November 2023

Key facts/analysis: The Court of Justice examined bans on employees wearing visible signs that could reveal ideological or philosophical affiliation or political or religious beliefs. It held that Article 2(2)(a) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC, establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, must be interpreted as allowing an internal rule of a municipal authority which, in a general and indiscriminate manner, prevents staff from visibly wearing at work any sign disclosing, in particular, philosophical or religious convictions, to be justified...

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