Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2012:148
Date: 2012-03-15
Language of the case: Italian
Court formation: Sixth Chamber
Subject matter: Social Policy
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Italy

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale di Napoli (Italy) lodged on 31 March 2011 - Giuseppe Sibilio v Comune di Afragola (Case C-157/11) Language of the case: Italian Referring court Tribunale di Napoli Parties to the main proceedings Applicant: Giuseppe Sibilio Defendant: Comune di Afragola Questions referred 1. Is Directive 1999/70/EC 1 applicable to socially useful workers or should such workers be regarded, in accordance with Clause 3(1) thereof, as persons having an employment relationship entered into directly between an employer and a worker where the end of the employment relationship is determined by objective conditions such as reaching a specific date, being in the present case the end of a project? 2. Does Clause 4 preclude a socially useful worker or a publicly useful worker from receiving less remuneration than a permanent worker who carries out the same duties and has the same length of service solely because his employment relationship was initiated on the terms described above, or does this constitute an objective reason justifying less favourable treatment in terms of pay? ____________ 1 - OJ 1999 L 175, p. 43.