05-05-2015

EU LAW. DIRECTIVE 2003/88/EC ON WORKING TIME.

An interesting issue was raised by the Spanish Audiencia Nacional for a preliminary ruling (Case C-266/14) dealing with with Directive 2003/88 on working time.

"Must Article 2 of Directive 2003/88/EC ¹ be interpreted as meaning that the time spent travelling at the beginning and end of the day by a worker who is not assigned to a fixed place of work but is required to travel every day from home to the premises of a different customer of the employer and to return home from the premises of another, different, customer (following a route or list that is determined for the worker by the employer the previous day), at all times within a geographical area that is more or less extensive, in the conditions of the main proceedings as described in the background to this question, constitutes ‘working time’ as that concept is defined in Article 2 of the directive or, conversely, must it be regarded as a ‘rest period’?"

Mariusz Gładysz