The European Court of Justice significant ruling on the definition of ‘night work’ will affect employers with pregnant / breastfeeding shift workers. In the case of Gonzalez Castro v Mutua Umivale, ProsegurEspana SL, Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social (INSS), C41/17, the European Union Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that pregnant workers who have recently…
The ECJ decided that a worker must be able to carry over and accumulate rights to paid annual leave when an employer does not put that worker in a position in which he is able to exercise his right to paid annual leave.
The provisions of the Termination of Employment Law (Law N.24/1967) were amended on the 25.07.2016. The amendment relates to the notice given by employers to terminate the employment of workers absent due to incapacity. Following the amendment to the law, if an employee is absent from work for a period of up to 12 months due…
The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) in Federación de Servicios Provados del sindicto Comisiones obreras (CC.OO.) v. Tyco Integrated Security SL, Tyco Integrated Fire & Security Corporation Servicios SA held that, “when workers…do not have a fixed or habitual place of work, the time spent by those workers travelling each day between their homes and…
On the 8.7.2013 the Labour Minister, Zeta Emilianidou, issued several decrees relating to the extension of shop working hours in Cyprus. Up until now only shops in designated “tourist zones” were allowed to stay open later and do business on Sundays. Other shops were only entitled to remain open for business between certain hours. As…
In the case of of Eweida and Others v. the United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights found that the domestic authorities breached a woman’s freedom of religion rights to wear a crucifix – a visible symbol of her faith – in the workplace. In this case, the applicant, an employee of British Airways…
A recent ruling in the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has clarified that, irrespective of whether the sickness commenced before or during the period of scheduled annual leave, an employee whose illness coincides with their annual leave is entitled to rearrange their annual leave to a later date. In Asociación Nacional de…
The Parental Leave and Leave on Grounds of Force Majeure Law, Law 47(I)/2012, came into force on the 18.05.2012 and repealed and replaced the previous legislation regarding parental leave and force majeure in Cyrpus. It was enacted for the purposes of harmonising Cyprus law with Council Directive 2010/18/EC on the revised framework agreement on parental…
In the case of Jivraj v Hashwani [1], the U.K. Court of Appeal held that an arbitration agreement which provided that only persons of a certain religious belief could act as arbitrator was void because arbitrators fall within the scope of English anti-discrimination employment legislation in relation to religion and belief (the Employment Equality (Religion…
In the case of Jivraj v Hashwani ([2010( EWCA Civ 712), the U.K. Court of Appeal held that an arbitration agreement which provided that only persons of a certain religious belief could act as arbitrator was held to be void. The court held that arbitrators fall within the scope of English anti-discrimination employment legislation in…