In her conclusions delivered to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Wednesday 26 July, the Advocate General, Eleanor Sharpston, argued that with regard to a referral case involving the town of Nivelles against a firefighter (C-518/15), on-call time by firefighters from Nivelles should not automatically be considered as working time under the terms of certain aspects of the directive on changes to working time (directive 2003/88/EC).
The ECJ was requested by the Brussels Employment...