Family assistants that provide permanent care for children should not be considered as workers in the sense of directive 2003/88 on working time, according to the Opinion delivered on Thursday 28 June 2018 by Advocate Nils Wahl in Case C-147/17.
In this case, around 100 family assistants (host families) employed by a Romanian public institution were obliged to look after the children in their care on a continual basis and filed a complaint about the conditions for carrying out of their...