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22-03-2012: Opinion of Advocate General C-583/10 (Nolan, United Kingdom)
Council Directive 98/59/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies must be interpreted as meaning that an employer’s duty to hold consultations with workers’ representatives emerges when a strategic or commercial decision, which forces the employer to consider or plan collective redundancies, is made by a body or entity which controls the employer. (C-583/10)

12-01-2012: Opinion of Advocate General C-415/10 (Meister, Germany)
Article 8 (1) of the Racial Equality Directive (2000/43/EC), Article 10 (1) of the Equal Treatment Directive (2000/78/EC) and Article 19 (1) of the Equal Treatment Directive (2006/54/EC) are not to be interpreted as meaning that an applicant who was not accepted for a post, has a right to information on the selection criteria, if the employer has selected another applicant. (C-415/10)

04-01-2012: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-7/12 (Riezniece, Latvia)
Must the provisions of the Equal Treatment Amendment Directive (2002/73/EC) be interpreted as meaning that an employer is prohibited from undertaking any action (especially the evaluation of an employee while absent) which might result in a female employee, who is on parental leave, to lose her job after returning to work? (C-7/12)

03-01-2012: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-5/12 (Montull, Spain)
National legislation providing for the right of employed fathers who adopt a child, but not those who have a child by birth, to suspend their contract of employment and to return to the same job, paid for by the social security system – Infringement of the principle of equal treatment. (C-5/12)

03-10-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-513/11 and C-512/11 (Ylemmät Toimihenkilöt YTN/Terveys- ja sosiaalialan neuvottelujärjestö TSN, Finland)
Do Directive 2006/54/EC and Council Directive 92/85/EEC obviate a national collective agreement from being interpreted as meaning that an employee moving from unpaid child -care leave to maternity leave is not paid salary during maternity leave in accordance with the collective agreement? (C-513/11 and C-512/11)

19-09-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-476/11 (Kristensen, Denmark)
Shall the exception in Article 6 (2) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC concerning the determination of age limits for access to occupational social security schemes be interpreted by Member States as meaning that exceptions to occupational social security systems with regard to age are generally applicable as long as they do not entail discrimination on the grounds of sex? (C-476/11)

15-09-2011: Opinion of Advocate General C-313/10 (Jansen, Germany)
Clause 5 (1) in the Annex of the Fixed Term Work Directive (1999/70/EC) has to be interpreted as a national court being permitted to examine the previous employment contracts and the total period of temporary employment. Also, an “objective reason” does not allow for a distinction to be made between the public and private sector. Furthermore, the court is not sure whether the national limit applicable to the public sector may be too broad. (C-313/10)

16-08-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-427/11 (Kenny a.o., Ireland)
What does the employer have to provide with respect to the deployment of comparators in circumstances where there is a prima facie indirect gender discrimination in pay in breach of Article 141 (now Article 157 TFEU) and Council Directive (75/117/EEC), in order to establish objective justification? (C-427/11)

12-08-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-426/11 (Alemo-Herron a.o., United Kingdom)
Does Article 3 of Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 require an employee´s contractual right to be protected against the transferor to the benefit of terms and conditions which are periodically negotiated and agreed by a third party (a collective bargaining body) and enforceable against the transferee in the event of a relevant transfer to which the Directive applies? (C-426/11)

25-07-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-394/11 (Belov, Bulgaria)
What is meant by ‘treated less favourably’ within the meaning of Article 2 (2) (a) of Directive 2000/43/EC and by ‘put persons of a racial or ethnic origin at a particular disadvantage’ within the meaning of Article 2 (2) (b) of Directive 2000/43/EC? Furthermore, how is Article 8 (1) of Directive 2000/43/EC to be interpreted concerning different cases, which are described in the reference for a preliminary ruling? (C-394/11)

25-07-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-393/11 ( Bertazzi a.o., Italy)
Is a national regulation, that doesn’t consider the length of service in case of contradicts with independent authorities, when a special ‘selection test’ is made, compatible to the Fixed Term Work Directive (1999/70/EC)? (C-393/11)

19-07-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-385/11 (Elbal Moreno, Spain)
Does Clause 4 of the Framework Agreement annexed to the Part-Time Work Directive require the application of a national contributory retirement pension and does the contained prohibition of discrimination contradict national regulation concerning the rating of contribution periods? (C-385/11)

11-07-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-367/11 (Prete, Belgium)
Do Article 12, 17 and 18 of the Treaty establishing the European Community as consolidated in Amsterdam on 2 October 1999, oppose to a national regulation, that demands for the emolument of unemployment benefits for persons that are no employers in the sense of Article 39 of the Treaty, to have studied six years in a national educational institution? (C-367/11)

07-07-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-363/11 (Antonopoulos, Greece)
Is it a working condition or an employment condition when an employer takes annual leave because of trade union activities, and are certain regulations for annual leave on account of trade union activities applicable in case of employers in public service ‘employment conditions’ as stipulated in Clause 4 (1) in the Annex of the Fixed-Term Work Directive (1999/70/EC)? (C-363/11)

04-07-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-349/11 (Yangwei, Belgium)
To what extent do employment regulations need to be unhooked und furthermore to be written down in documents? (C-349/11)

01-07-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-337/11 (Skouboe Werge, Denmark)
Is a person who falls within the scope of C-13/05 also disabled as provided in the Equal Treatment Directive (2000/78/EC) and what are the symptoms of an illness that causes disability in this sense? (C-337/11)

01-07-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-335/11 (Ring, Denmark)
Is a person who falls within the scope of C-13/05 also disabled as provided in the Equal Treatment Directive (2000/78/EC) and what are the symptoms of an illness that causes disability in this sense? (C-335/11)

27-06-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-317/11 (Reimann, Germany)
Is Clause13 II BUrlG compatible with Article 31 of the Charter of the Fundamental Rights and the Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC), when it is based on the national legislation which makes it possible to reduce the right to annual leave through the use of a collective agreement? (C-317/11)

20-06-2011: Action C-312/11 (Commission v Italy)
Italy may have failed to fulfill its obligation to correctly implement Article 5 of the Equal Treatment Directive (2000/78/EC) by not including all disabled persons, employers and working conditions in its national regulation. (C-312/11)

17-06-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-302/11 and C-303/11 and C-304/11 (Valenza, Italy)
Does national legislation concerning the recruitment of employees who have already had a fixed-term contract breach Clause 4(4) in the Annex of the Fixed-Term Work Directive (1999/70/EC)? (C-302/11 and C-303/11 and C-304/11)

27-05-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-266/11 (Frandsen, Denmark)
Is Council Directive 2000/78/EC to be interpreted as meaning that the prohibition of all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age obviates national regulations, which applied before the entry into force of the Council Directive, from upholding a collective agreement between an airline company and the labour union representing that company’s pilot, which provides for obligatory retirement at the age of 60, when the respective provision´s purpose is the protection of aviation safety based on the fundamental notion of reduced performance ability with age? (C-266/11)

16-05-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-229/11 and C-230/11 (Heimann, Germany)
Is it compatible with Article 31 (2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC) for part-time employees to have less annual leave than full-time employees based on pro rata? (C-229/11 and C-230/11)

27-04-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-194/11 ( Natividad Martínez Álvarez, Spain)
Do Article 7 (1) of the Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC) and Article 31 (2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights contradict national legislation which determines that annual leave may only be interrupted because of temporary inability to work in case of a hospital stay? (C-194/11)

31-03-2011 Reference for a preliminary ruling C-157/11 (Sibilio, Italy)
Do “lavoratori socialmente utili" (socially useful workers) fall within the scope of the Fixed Term Work Directive (1999/70/EC)? (C-157/11)

28-03-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-152/11 (Odar, Germany)
The reference concerns the compatibility of the Equal Treatment Directive (2000/78/EC) and a national rule that induces the unequal treatment of older people in a social plan, as seniors used to be secured by other systems. (C-152/11)

21-03-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-141/11 (Hörnfeldt, Sweden)
The Tingsrätt asks the Court of Justice about the interpretation of Article 6 of the Equal Treatment Directive (2000/78/EC) and the general principle of law on the prohibition of age discrimination. (C-141/11)

18-03-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-132/11 (Tyrolean Airways Tiroler Luftfahrt Gesellschaft mbH, Austria)
Are Articles 1, 2, 6 of the Equal Treatment Directive (2000/78/EC) and Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights incompatible and is it considered unjustified unequal treatment when the knowledge and skills of older employees are only considered as the basis for the calculation of earnings if these are acquired at the same airline company? (C-132/11)

09-03-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-124/11 and C-125/11 and C-143/11 (Dittrich, Germany)
Does the scope of the Equal Treatment Directive (2000/78/EC) include cases in which public servants need assistance, because of illness?
(C-124/11 and C-125/11 and C-143/11)

22-02-2011: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-78/11 (Asociación Nacional de Grandes Empresas de Distribución (ANGED), Spain)
Is Article 7 (1) of the Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC) opposed to an interpretation of national legislation that proscribes the interruption of the leave period if a worker is temporarily incapacitated during his leave, so the full or remaining period cannot be taken at a later time? (C-78/11)

07-07-2010: Reference for a preliminary ruling C-337/10 (Neidel, Germany)
Does Article 7 of the Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC) apply to the employment relationship of public servants? (C-337/10)