CELEX: 62019CA0282
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-282/19: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 13 January 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale di Napoli — Italy) — YT and Others v Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca — MIUR, Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Campania (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 1999/70/EC — Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP — Clauses 4 and 5 — Fixed-term employment contracts in the public sector — Catholic religious education teachers — Concept of ‘objective reasons’ justifying the renewal of such contracts — Permanent need for replacement staff)

7.3.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 109/3
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 13 January 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale di Napoli — Italy) — YT and Others v Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca — MIUR, Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Campania
      (Case C-282/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Social policy - Directive 1999/70/EC - Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP - Clauses 4 and 5 - Fixed-term employment contracts in the public sector - Catholic religious education teachers - Concept of ‘objective reasons’ justifying the renewal of such contracts - Permanent need for replacement staff)
      (2022/C 109/03)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunale di Napoli
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: YT, ZU, AW, BY, CX, DZ, EA, FB, GC, IE, JF, KG, LH, MI, NY, PL, HD, OK
      
         Defendants: Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca — MIUR, Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Campania
      
         Intervener: Federazione GILDA-UNAMS
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Clause 5 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, first, as precluding national legislation excluding Catholic religious education teachers in public education establishments from the scope of the rules intended to penalise abuse arising from the use of successive fixed-term contracts where there is no other effective measure in the domestic legal system penalising that abuse and, second, as meaning that the requirement to hold a suitability certificate issued by an ecclesiastical authority for the purposes of allowing those teachers to provide Catholic religious education does not constitute an ‘objective reason’ within the meaning of Clause 5(1)(a) of the framework agreement, because that certificate is issued once and not before each school year leading to the conclusion of a fixed-term employment contract.
      
         (1)  OJ C 206, 17.6.2019.