Brussels, 08/11/2012 (Agence Europe) - EU law is not opposed to an undertaking and its works council concluding a social plan providing for the proportional reduction of the paid annual leave of a worker on short-time working.
In its ruling of Thursday 8 November in two joined cases (C-229/11 and C-230/11), the EU Court of Justice answered the Passau Labour Court (Germany), to which a case was referred regarding two workers whose working time was reduced to zero (“Kurzarbeitnull”) in...