CELEX: 62012CA0588
Language: en
Date: 2014-02-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-588/12: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 27 February 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the arbeidshof te Antwerpen (Belgium)) — Lyreco Belgium NV v Sophie Rogiers (Social policy — Directive 96/34/EC — Framework agreement on parental leave — Clauses 1 and 2.4 — Part-time parental leave — Dismissal of a worker without compelling or sufficient reason — Fixed-sum protective award on account of the taking of parental leave — Method of calculating the amount of award)

14.4.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 112/11
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 27 February 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the arbeidshof te Antwerpen (Belgium)) — Lyreco Belgium NV v Sophie Rogiers
   (Case C-588/12) (1)
   
   ((Social policy - Directive 96/34/EC - Framework agreement on parental leave - Clauses 1 and 2.4 - Part-time parental leave - Dismissal of a worker without compelling or sufficient reason - Fixed-sum protective award on account of the taking of parental leave - Method of calculating the amount of award))
   2014/C 112/12
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Arbeidshof te Antwerpen
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Lyreco Belgium NV
   
      Defendant: Sophie Rogiers
   
      Re:
   
   Request for a preliminary ruling — Arbeidshof te Antwerpen — Belgium — Interpretation of clauses 1 and 2.4, of the framework agreement on parental leave concluded by UNICE, CEEP and ETUC, contained in the Annex to Council Directive 96/34/EC of 3 June 1996 (OJ 1996 L 145, p. 4) — Part-time parental leave — Reduction of benefits — Termination of a worker’s contract before the end of the period of parental leave without compelling reason — Method of calculating the amount of redundancy compensation.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   On a proper construction of clause 2.4 of the framework agreement on parental leave concluded on 14 December 1995, which is set out in the annex to Council Directive 96/34/EC of 3 June 1996 on the framework agreement on parental leave concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC, as amended by Council Directive 97/75/EC of 15 December 1997 read in the light both of the objectives of that Framework Agreement and of clause 2.6 thereof, it is contrary to that provision for the fixed-sum protective award payable to a worker on part-time parental leave, where the employer unilaterally and without compelling or sufficient reason terminates that worker’s full-time contract of indefinite duration, to be determined on the basis of the reduced salary earned by that worker at the date of the dismissal.
   
      (1)  OJ C 79, 16.3.2013.