CELEX: 62010CO0273
Language: en
Date: 2011-03-18 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 18 March 2011.#David Montoya Medina v Fondo de Garantía Salarial and Universidad de Alicante.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Valenciana - Spain.#Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure - Social policy - Directive 1999/70/EC - Clause 4 of the Framework Agreement on fixed-term work - Fixed-term employment contracts in the public sector - Entitlement to triennial seniority bonuses - Principle of non-discrimination.#Case C-273/10.

Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 18 March 2011 – Montoya Medina v Fondo de Garantía Salarial and Universidad de Alicante
      (Case C-273/10)
      Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure – Social policy – Directive 1999/70/EC – Clause 4 of the Framework Agreement on fixed-term work – Fixed-term employment contracts in the public sector – Entitlement to triennial seniority bonuses – Principle of non-discrimination
      1.                     Social policy – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Directive 1999/70 – Conditions
            of employment – Definition – Seniority bonus – Included – Duty to apply the principle of non-discrimination (Council Directive
            1999/70, Annex, clause 4(1)) (see paras 32-34)
      2.                     Social policy – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Directive 1999/70 – Workers doing
            the same work – ‘Same work’ – Meaning – Workers in a similar situation – Criteria for assessment (Council Directive 1999/70,
            Annex, clause 3(2)) (see paragraphs 36-39)
      3.                     Social policy – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Directive 1999/70 – Objective reasons
            warranting different treatment – Meaning (Council Directive 1999/70, Annex, clause 4(1)) (see paragraphs 34, 37, 40-43, 47,
            operative part)
      Re:
      
         
               Reference for a preliminary ruling – Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Valenciana – Interpretation of clause 4(4)
                  of the Annex to Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded
                  by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP (OJ 1999 L 175, p. 43) – Contracts of employment as a university lecturer and researcher concluded
                  with State universities – Exclusion of certain benefits from fixed-term contracts.
               
            Operative part:
      Clause 4(1) of the Framework agreement on fixed-term work, concluded on 18 March 1999, which is annexed to Council Directive
         1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP, must be
         interpreted as precluding national legislation which, without any objective justification, restricts the right to receive
         a seniority bonus to university lecturers on permanent contracts, excluding lecturers on fixed-term contracts when, as regards
         receipt of that bonus, those two categories of workers are in comparable situations.