CELEX: 62008CA0395
Language: en
Date: 2010-06-10 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-395/08 and C-396/08: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 10 June 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Corte d’appello di Roma (Italy)) — Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) v Tiziana Bruno, Massimo Pettini (C-395/08), Daniela Lotti, Clara Matteucci (C-396/08) (Directive 97/81/EC — Framework Agreement on part-time work — Equal treatment of part-time and full-time workers — Calculation of the period of service required to obtain a retirement pension — Periods not worked disregarded — Discrimination)

9.10.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 274/2
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 10 June 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Corte d’appello di Roma (Italy)) — Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS) v Tiziana Bruno, Massimo Pettini (C-395/08), Daniela Lotti, Clara Matteucci (C-396/08)
   (Joined Cases C-395/08 and C-396/08) (1)
   
   (Directive 97/81/EC - Framework Agreement on part-time work - Equal treatment of part-time and full-time workers - Calculation of the period of service required to obtain a retirement pension - Periods not worked disregarded - Discrimination)
   2010/C 274/02
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Referring court
   
   Corte d’appello di Roma
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale (INPS)
   
      Defendants: Tiziana Bruno, Massimo Pettini (C-395/08), Daniela Lotti, Clara Matteucci (C-396/08)
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Corte d’appello di Roma (Italy) — Interpretation of Council Directive 97/81/EC of 15 December 1997 concerning the Framework Agreement on part-time work concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC — Annex: Framework agreement on part-time work (OJ 1998 L 14, p. 9) — Part-time workers working some months of the year and resting in the other months — Exclusion of periods not worked in the calculation of pension rights
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
               1.
            
            
               With regard to retirement pensions, Clause 4 of the Framework Agreement on part-time work annexed to Council Directive 97/81/EC of 15 December 1997 concerning the Framework Agreement on part-time work concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which, for vertical-cyclical part-time workers, disregards periods not worked in calculating the period of service required to qualify for such a pension, unless such a difference in treatment is justified on objective grounds.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If the referring court reached the conclusion that the national legislation at issue in the main proceedings is incompatible with Clause 4 of the Framework Agreement, Clauses 1 and 5(1) of the agreement would have to be interpreted as also precluding such legislation.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 327, 20.12.2008.