A disciplinary sanction imposed on a serving judge for sharing a critical press article on Facebook constitutes a violation of the freedom of expression. |
Rulings |
ECtHR 1 March 2022, app. no. 16695/19 (Kozan – v – Turkey), Other Fundamental Rightsİbrahim Kozan – v – Turkey, Turkish case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2022 |
Trefwoorden | Other Fundamental Rights |
Samenvatting |
Rulings |
ECtHR 7 December 2021, app. no. 29582/09 (Yakut Republican Trade-Union Federation – v – Russia), UnionsYakut Republican Trade-Union Federation – v – Russia, Russian case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 4 2021 |
Trefwoorden | Unions |
Samenvatting |
A court’s order to a trade-union federation to expel a grassroots union of working prisoners because of a statutory ban on their unionization did not violate article 11-1 of the Charter. |
Rulings |
ECtHR 9 November 2021, app. no. 31549/18 (Špadijer v. Montenegro), Privacy, WhistleblowingMs. Špadijer – v – Montenegro, Montenegro case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 4 2021 |
Trefwoorden | Privacy, Whistleblowing |
Samenvatting |
States must protect the physical and psychological integrity of individuals from others, including setting up a legal framework with that aim in an adequate way. |
Landmark Ruling |
ECJ 15 July 2021, joined cases C-804/18 and C-341/19 (WABE), Religious DiscriminationIX – v – WABE eV and MH Müller Handels GmbH – v – MJ, German cases |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 3 2021 |
Trefwoorden | Religious Discrimination |
Samenvatting |
An employer’s need to present a neutral image may justify a prohibition on any visible expression of beliefs, but must correspond to a genuine need, notwithstanding the specific national context end more favourable national provisions. |
Landmark Ruling |
ECJ 2 September 2021, case C-928/19 P (EPSU), Collective Agreements, MiscellaneousEuropean Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) – v – European Commission |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 3 2021 |
Trefwoorden | Collective Agreements, Miscellaeneous |
Samenvatting |
The Commission is not bound to give effect to the social partners’ request seeking implementation, at EU level, of the agreement that they have concluded. |
Pending Cases |
Case C-33/18, Social insuranceV – v – Institut national d’assurances sociales pour travailleurs indépendants, Securex Integrity ASBL, reference lodged by the Cour du travail de Liège (Belgium) on 18 January 2018 |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 4 2018 |
Rulings |
ECtHR 24 April 2018, application no. 56237/08 (Sadrettin Güler), Freedom of assembly and associationSadrettin Güler – v – Turkey, Turkish case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 2 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Freedom of assembly and association |
Samenvatting |
Giving an employee an official warning after he participated in a large pre-announced Labour Day demonstration is found to be in breach of the right to freedom of association. |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 5 December 2017, application no. 57101/10, Nationality discriminationRibać – v – Slovenia, Slovenian case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Race, nationality discrimination |
Samenvatting |
Denial of military pension is deemed to be discriminatory based on nationality. |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 27 February 2018, application no. 1085/10, Unfair dismissal, Freedom of expressionGuja – v – The Republic of Moldova (No. 2), Moldavian case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Unfair dismissal, Freedom of expression |
Samenvatting |
Dismissal after re-instatement of employment following an ECtHR judgment found an infringement of freedom of speech. |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 23 January 2018, application no. 15374/11, Unfair dismissal, Other fundamental rightsMr Güç – v – Turkey, Turkish case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Unfair dismissal, Other fundamental rights |
Samenvatting |
Dismissal for harassment despite acquittal in criminal proceedings is not incompatible with Article 6(2) of the Convention (presumption of innocence). |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 9 January 2018, application nos. 1874/13 and 8567/13, Fundamental rights, PrivacyLopez Ribalda – v – Spain, Spanish case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Fundamental rights, Privacy |
Samenvatting |
The Spanish courts breached Article 8 of the Convention on Human Rights by accepting covert footage as valid evidence in court. |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 23 January 2018, application no. 60392/08, Unfair dismissal, Other fundamental rightsSeven – v – Turkey, Turkish case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Unfair dismissal, Other fundamental rights |
Samenvatting |
The Turkish Supreme Administrative Court cast doubt on a dismissed police officer’s innocence by failing, in an appeal review, to take proper account of the fact that he had been acquitted of rape, in breach of the presumption of innocence contained in Article 6 §2 of the European Convention on Human Rights. |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 5 September 2017 (Barbulescu), Application no. 61496/08, PrivacyBarbulescu – v – Romania, Romanian case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 4 2017 |
Trefwoorden | Fundamental rights, Privacy |
Samenvatting |
In Barbulescu, the Court examined for the first time a case concerning the monitoring of an employee’s electronic communications by a private employer. The Grand Chamber decided differently from the Chamber, when it concluded that the Romanian courts, in reviewing the decision of a private employer to dismiss an employee after having monitored his electronic communications, failed to strike a fair balance between the interests at stake: namely the employee’s right to respect for his private life and correspondence, on the one hand, and his employer’s right to take measures to ensure the smooth running of the company, on the other. |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 28 March 2017, application no. 51706/11, Freedom of expressionMarunic – v – Croatia, Croatian case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 2 2017 |
Trefwoorden | Freedom of expression |
Samenvatting |
The employer had summarily dismissed the director of the company, on the basis that it had the right to protect its reputation and business interests against the criticisms she made in the media. What it failed to take into account was that she was simply responding to earlier criticisms by the employer in the media of her leadership. The expectation that the employee should not respond in the media would overstretch the employees’ duty of loyalty, contrary to Article 10 of the Convention – whereby the right to freedom of expression would protect against unreasonable demands of loyalty by the employer. On the facts, what the employee did was legitimate and within her right to freedom of expression. |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 26 January 2017, application no. 42788/06, Right to fair hearing and right to respect for private and family lifeSurikov – v – Ukraine, Ukrainian case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 2 2017 |
Trefwoorden | Right to respect for private and family life |
Samenvatting |
ECtHR concludes that there has been a violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) in the case of retention and disclosure of an employee’s mental-health data and its use in deciding on employees’ applications for promotion. |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 25 October 2016, application nos. 45197/13, 53000/13 and 73404/13, Diplomatic immunity in labour relationsRadunović and Others – v – Montenegro, Montenegronian case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2017 |
Trefwoorden | Diplomatic immunity in labour relations |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 8 November 2016, application 26126/07, Diplomatic immunity in labour relationsNaku – v – Lithuania and Sweden, Lithuanian and Swedish case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2017 |
Trefwoorden | Diplomatic immunity in labour relations |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 15 September 2016, application 44818/11. (Gurkha), DiscriminationBritish Gurkha Welfare Society and others – v – the United Kingdom |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 3 2016 |
Trefwoorden | Discrimination |
Samenvatting |
The ECtHR found no violation of Article 14 of the Convention read together with Article 1 of Protocol 1, in the pension schemes applying to the Brigade of Gurkhas. Although Gurkha soldiers could be regarded as having been treated less favourably than other soldiers in the British army, any difference in treatment had been objectively and reasonably justified. |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 2 June 2016, application 23646/09. (Geotech), Freedom of AssociationGeotech Kancev GmbH – v – Germany, German case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 3 2016 |
Trefwoorden | Freedom of association |
Samenvatting |
A company’s obligation to participate in the building industry’s Social Welfare Fund did not breach the company’s right to freedom of association, nor its right to protection of property. |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 26 November 2015, application 64846/11. (Ebrahimian), Religious DiscriminationChristiane Ebrahimian –v– France, French case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2016 |
Trefwoorden | Religious Discrimination |