Daily rest and weekly rest are two autonomous and additional rights, even if daily rest precedes weekly rest, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Thursday 2 March (Case C-477/21).
In Hungary, a train driver challenged the refusal of MÁV-START, the national railway company, to grant him a daily rest period of at least 11 consecutive hours when this period precedes or follows a weekly rest period or a holiday period.
After being referred by the Court of Miskolc, the...