The Spanish legislation, which reduces the period for which unemployment benefit is paid by excluding days not worked from the calculation of days for which social contributions have been paid, discriminates against 'vertical' part-time workers, most of whom are women, the Court of Justice of the EU considered in a judgment returned on Thursday 9 November (case C-98/15).
Ms Espadas Recio worked continually for more than 12 years as a housekeeper on the basis of a so-called vertical part-time...