When should the periodic penalty payment be considered as working time? – Public service

The Court was seized of preliminary questions, on the one hand, from a Slovenian court which must decide the dispute between the television of the country and a technician, on the other hand, from a German court concerning a dispute between a firefighter and the city that employs him. The two men claim payment as working time for on-call hours worked under significantly different conditions. The firefighter could be anywhere he wanted … as long as he was able to arrive, twenty minutes after a call, at any limit in the town of Offenbach am Main. As for the technician, his obligations are …

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