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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9081
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice

Healthcare workers and doctors are entitled to payment for time on stand-by duty

Luxembourg, 02/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - In the “Dellas”proceedings, the European Court of Justice considered that what it had given in earlier rulings as an indication of payment for doctors on-call during the night also applied to healthcare workers in specialised institutions. Hours spent during the night overseeing patients must be counted for on an hourly basis for payment of that worker. The Court considered as incompatible with the provisions of the 1993 Directive on working hours...

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