Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2015:62
Date: 2015-02-05
Language of the case: Dutch
Court formation: Eighth Chamber
Subject matter: Social security for migrant workers
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Netherlands

Summary — Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber), 5 February 2015 1. Social security — Migrant workers — Unemployment — Frontier workers — Determination as to whether the worker is partially unemployed or wholly unemployed — Application of criteria of EU law (Council Regulation No 1408/71, as amended by Regulation No 1606/98, Art. 71(1)(a)) 2. Social security — Migrant workers — Unemployment — Frontier workers — Notion of partially unemployed worker — Worker employed on a part-time basis by an employer in a Member State immediately after the end of a full-time employment relationship with another employer in that Member State — Included (Council Regulation No 1408/71, as amended by Regulation No 1606/98, Art. 71(1)(a)) 1. See the text of the decision. (see para. 22) 2. Article 71(1)(a)(i) of Regulation No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community, as amended and updated by Regulation No 118/97, as amended by Regulation No 1606/98 must be interpreted as meaning that a frontier worker who, immediately after the end of a full-time employment relationship with an employer in a Member State, is employed on a part-time basis by another employer in that same Member State has the status of a partially unemployed frontier worker within the meaning of that provision. (see para. 31, operative part)