CELEX: 62012CA0507
Language: en
Date: 2014-06-19 00:00:00
Title: Case C-507/12: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 19 June 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom — United Kingdom) — Jessy Saint Prix v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 45 TFEU — Directive 2004/38/EC — Article 7 — ‘Worker’  — Union citizen who gave up work because of the physical constraints of the late stages of pregnancy and the aftermath of childbirth)

25.8.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 282/5
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 19 June 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom — United Kingdom) — Jessy Saint Prix v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
   (Case C-507/12) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 45 TFEU - Directive 2004/38/EC - Article 7 - ‘Worker’ - Union citizen who gave up work because of the physical constraints of the late stages of pregnancy and the aftermath of childbirth))
   2014/C 282/07
   Language of the case: English
   
      Referring court
   
   Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Jessy Saint Prix
   
      Defendants: Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
   
      Intervening party: AIRE Centre
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 45 TFEU must be interpreted as meaning that a woman who gives up work, or seeking work, because of the physical constraints of the late stages of pregnancy and the aftermath of childbirth retains the status of ‘worker’, within the meaning of that article, provided she returns to work or finds another job within a reasonable period after the birth of her child.
   
      (1)  OJ C 26, 26.1.2013.