A period of on-call duty constitutes working time in its entirety only when the constraints imposed on the worker significantly affect his or her ability to manage leisure time during that period, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled on Tuesday 9 March.
The judgments it delivered concern two employee cases before Slovenian and German courts which were referred to the CJEU for preliminary rulings.
The first (C-344/19) concerns a specialised technician who was responsible for the...