Requirements for on-call duty as working time

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Decisions of the CJEU from 9.3.2021, C-580/19 and C-344/19 - Requirements for on-call duty as working time. In summary, the ECJ stated in both cases that for the assessment of on-call time as working time, it is essentially a matter of such restrictions on the use of free time that are imposed on the employee in particular on the basis of the employment contract, the work regulations or the on-call schedule. It is therefore essential how [...]

Pharmacy reservation is in conformity with the constitution - finding of the VfGH

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Supreme Constitutional Court from 03.03.2021, V 75-76/2019-15 – Pharmacy reservation is in conformity with the constitution. In the third application to the Constitutional Court by an Austrian drugstore chain to annul the pharmacy proviso on the grounds of interference with freedom of purchase and violation of the principle of equality, the court succeeded in obtaining a substantive decision. However, the application was rejected. As a brief reminder, the content of the first two applications was not processed because [...]