EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Social

Mrs Thyssen says status of volunteer firefighters may be subject to derogations from ‘Working Time’ Directive

Brussels, 19/09/2019 (Agence Europe)

The European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs, Marianne Thyssen, assured the European Parliament on Thursday 19 September that the status of volunteer firefighters was not threatened by the ‘Matzak’ judgment of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) and could in any case be subject to derogations from the ‘Working Time’ Directive.

The CJEU delivered a judgment in February 2018 on the ‘Rudy Matzak’ case in which it considered that on-call time for a volunteer...