32It should be pointed out, in the second place, that according to paragraph 7 of Clause 2 of the framework agreement, the Member States and/or management and labour are to define the status of the employment contract or of the employment relationship for the period of parental leave provided for under that agreement. It follows that the Community legislature, in adopting Directive 96/34 which puts into effect that agreement, considered that the working relationship between the worker and his employer was maintained during the period of child-care leave. As a result, the beneficiary of such leave remains, during that period, a worker for the purposes of Community law.
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