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Subject-matter

Request for a preliminary ruling – Employment Tribunal, Leicester – United Kingdom – Interpretation of Article 7 of Council Directive 93/104/EC of 23 November 1993 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time (OJ 1993 L 307, p. 18) as amended by Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 (OJ 2003 L 299, p. 9) – Consultant being paid a basic salary together with monthly premiums according to the turnover realised and the number of sale contracts concluded, paid in arrears – Maintenance of the basic salary during annual leave, but not the premiums, except those linked to the services provided before the leave

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 31 -P2 : paragraph 14
• TEU, Article 6 -P1 : paragraph 14
• Directive 93/104 : paragraph 14
• Directive 93/104 -A07 : paragraph 12
• Directive 2003/88 : paragraphs 12, 14, 17
• Directive 2003/88 -A07 : paragraphs 1, 3, 13 - 35
• Directive 2003/88 -A07P1 : paragraphs 13, 16, 24
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -131/04 : paragraphs 16, 17, 20
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -350/06 : paragraphs 16, 17
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -471/08 : paragraph 30
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -155/10 : paragraphs 23, 26 - 31
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -214/10 : paragraph 14

Operative part

• Interprets : Directive 2003/88 -A07
• Interprets : Directive 2003/88 -A07P1

Opinion

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 31 -P2 : point 13
  
• Directive 93/104 -A07 : point 9
  
• Directive 2003/88 : points 19, 28
  
• Directive 2003/88 -A07 : points 1, 10, 11, 16, 17, 34, 44 - 49
  
• Directive 2003/88 -A07P1 : points 15, 18
  
• Directive 2003/88 -A07P2 : point 35
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -131/04 : points 15, 35, 44
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -350/06 : point 14
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -194/08 : point 29
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -471/08 : point 29
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -155/10 : points 13, 16, 18 - 29
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -282/10 : point 13
  

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 26/11/2012

Date of the Opinion

• 05/12/2013

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

22/05/2014

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 253 from 04.08.2014, p.8

Application: OJ C 46 from 16.02.2013, p.13

Name of the parties

Lock

Notes on Academic Writings

1. van Zanten-Baris, A.: Recht op basisloon en provisie tijdens en na vakantie. Het niet doorberekenen van provisie zou werknemer ervan kunnen weerhouden vakantie op te nemen., Jurisprudentie arbeidsrecht 2014 nº 9 p.1189-1191 (NL)
2. O'Mara, Ciaran: European Developments, Irish Employment Law Journal 2014Vol.11 nº 2 p.63-64 (EN)
3. Norrby, Ann: Provision ska räknas in i semesterlönen, Lag & Avtal 2014 nº 6 p.31 (SV)
4. Franzen, Martin: Urlaubsentgelt, Provisionen und andere unregelmäßig anfallende Vergütungsbestandteile, Neue Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht 2014 p.647-649 (DE)
5. Hilgenstock, Christopher: EuGH: Einbeziehung von Grundgehalt und Provisionen in die Berechnung des Urlaubsentgelts, Betriebs-Berater 2014 p.1600 (DE)
6. Forst, Gerrit: Berücksichtigung von regelmäßigen Provisionen beim Urlaubsentgelt („Lock“), Entscheidungen zum Wirtschaftsrecht 2014 p.429-430 (DE)
7. Pötters, Stephan: Arbeitsrecht: Zusammensetzung des Urlaubsentgelts – Grundgehalt und Provision, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 2014 p.551-552 (DE)
8. Pigott, Charles: All inclusive? The ECJ has opened the way to higher holiday pay for workers on commission, says Charles Pigott, New Law Journal 2014 p.8 (EN)
9. Lhernould, Jean-Philippe: L'actualité de la jurisprudence européenne et internationale. Calcul de l'indemnité de congés payés lorsque le salarié est payé à la commission, Revue de jurisprudence sociale 2014 p.558-559 (FR)
10. Driguez, Laetitia: Indémnité de congés payés, Europe 2014 Juillet Chron. nº 7 p.32-33 (FR)
11. Schinz, Reinhard: Berechnung des Urlaubsentgelts bei Zusammensetzung des Arbeitsentgelts aus Grundgehalt und monatlicher Provision nach Maßgabe des erzielten Umsatzes, Europäische Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht 2015 p.92-101 (DE)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Employment Tribunal, Leicester - United Kingdom

Subject-matter

• Social policy
  

Provisions of national law referred to

Employment Rights Act 1996, sections 221, 223 et 224 The Working Time Regulations 1998, regulations 13(1), 13(2)(e), 13A(1) et (4), et 16

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling
  

Formation of the Court

première chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Levits

Advocate General

Bot

Language(s) of the Case

• English
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

• French