CELEX: 62017CN0610
Language: en
Date: 2017-10-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-610/17: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Työtuomioistuin (Finland) lodged on 24 October 2017 — Auto- ja Kuljetusalan Työntekijäliitto AKT ry v Satamaoperaattorit ry

15.1.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 13/8
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Työtuomioistuin (Finland) lodged on 24 October 2017 — Auto- ja Kuljetusalan Työntekijäliitto AKT ry v Satamaoperaattorit ry
   (Case C-610/17)
   (2018/C 013/10)
   Language of the case: Finnish
   
      Referring court
   
   Työtuomioistuin
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Auto- ja Kuljetusalan Työntekijäliitto AKT ry
   
      Defendant: Satamaoperaattorit ry
   
      Other party: Kemi Shipping Oy
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               (1)
            
            
               Does Article 7(1) of Directive 2003/88/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time preclude a national provision in a collective agreement, or its interpretation, under which an employee whose incapacity for work on account of illness commences during his annual leave, or a part thereof, is not entitled, irrespective of any application by him, to carry over the first six days of incapacity for work falling within the annual leave, where those days of absence on account of illness do not reduce the employee’s entitlement to four weeks’ annual leave?
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Does Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union have direct legal effect in an employment relationship between private legal subjects, that is to say, direct horizontal legal effect?
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Does Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union protect accrued leave, in so far as the duration of the leave exceeds the minimum annual leave of four weeks provided for in Article 7(1) of the Working Time Directive, and does that provision of the Charter of Fundamental Rights preclude a national provision in a collective agreement, or its interpretation, under which an employee whose incapacity for work on account of illness commences during his annual leave, or a part thereof, is not entitled, irrespective of any application by him, to carry over the first six days of incapacity for work falling within the annual leave, where those days of absence on account of illness do not reduce the employee’s entitlement to four weeks’ annual leave?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 2003 L 299, p. 9.