Brussels, 28/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - Estonian law does not always provide sufficient protection against abuse arising from the use of successive fixed-term employment contracts in academia and, on Thursday 28 May, the European Commission announced it had therefore decided to refer the country to the European Court of Justice.
In Estonia, labour law limits successive fixed-term employment to five years. If this limit is reached, the fixed-term employment is converted to a permanent...