Together with the IBJ-IJE (Belgian Institute for Company Lawyers) Van Olmen & Wynant organised an Employment Forum on 24 June 2021 on EU working time ("Beyond the limits of working time") at De Warande in Brussels. We were pleased to welcome 50 HR experts, legal managers, government officials, magistrates etc. in a COVID-proof setting. After switching to webinars during the past months, it was especially enjoyable to meet our clients and guests in real live.
The Court of Justice of the European Union has often surprised national jurisdictions and employers with its rather strict interpretation of the EU Working Time Directive, for example regarding the obligation to register working time. Also, recent cases concerning the conditions to qualify on-call time as working time and on the application of the working time limits for multiple employment contracts for the same employee can be considered as important evolutions in European working time law. Our speakers, senior associate Gautier Busschaert and of counsel Pieter Pecinovsky, discussed this EU jurisprudence from a practical point of view for Belgian employers.
The programme:
- Two years after the CCOO case on working time registration
- Is on-call time working time? New cases of the CJEU: Radiotelevizija Slovenija and Stadt Offenbach am Main
- The ASE Bucuresti case: the same working time limits for multiple employment contracts with the same or with different employers?
For more information about this Employment Forum please contact pieter.pecinovsky@vow.be
In case you missed it: L&E Global organises a free webinar on EU working time on 1 July 2021 with Gautier and Pieter: more info here.
