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Zentralbetriebsrat der Landeskrankenhäuser Tirols v Land Tirol (C-486/08)
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The questions referred for a prelimina…
Question 2
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Zentralbetriebsrat der Landeskrankenhäuser Tirols v Land Tirol (C-486/08)

Judgment of 22 Apr 2010law://eu/cjeu/2008/c-486-08/para_29@2026-11-10

29Second, it should be noted that that particularly important principle of European Union social law cannot be interpreted restrictively (see, by analogy, Case C-116/08 Meerts [2009] ECR I-10063, paragraph 42).

Source: EUR-Lex, © European Union, 1998-2026. Reuse authorised under Decision 2011/833/EU.

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Court: Court of Justice · First Chamber
Case: C-486/08 · ECLI:EU:C:2010:215
Decided: 22 Apr 2010
Procedure: Preliminary reference · referred by the Landesgericht Innsbruck (Austria)
Applicant: Zentralbetriebsrat der Landeskrankenhäuser Tirols
Defendant: Land Tirol
Rapporteur: E. Levits
Advocate General: E. Sharpston
Bench: 5 judges
A. Tizzano, E. Levits, A. Borg Barthet, M. Ilešič, M. Berger
Language: German
Official: CURIA · EUR-Lex 62008CJ0486

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Interprets 3: Council Directive 96/34/EC of 3 June 1996 on the framework agreement on parental leave concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC; Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP; Council Directive 97/81/EC of 15 December 1997 concerning the Framework Agreement on part-time work concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC - Annex : Framework agreement on part-time work
Cited by 13: MK v Lufthansa CityLine GmbH (C-660/20); PG v Ministero della Giustizia and Others (C-236/20); FT v Universitatea „Lucian Blaga” Sibiu and Others (C-644/19); Conley King v The Sash Window Workshop Ltd and Richard Dollar (C-214/16)2 provisions; H. v Land Berlin (C-174/16); Alicja Sobczyszyn v Szkoła Podstawowa w Rzeplinie (C-178/15)2 provisions; Kathleen Greenfield v The Care Bureau Ltd (C-219/14)2 provisions; Österreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund v Verband Österreichischer Banken und Bankiers (C-476/12); Lyreco Belgium NV v Sophie Rogiers (C-588/12)2 provisions; Alexander Heimann and Konstantin Toltschin v Kaiser GmbH (C-229/11, C-230/11)2 provisions; Asociación Nacional de Grandes Empresas de Distribución (ANGED) v Federación de Asociaciones Sindicales (FASGA) and Others (C-78/11)2 provisions; Dermod Patrick O’Brien v Ministry of Justice, formerly Department for Constitutional Affairs (C-393/10)2 provisions; Rosa María Gavieiro Gavieiro and Ana María Iglesias Torres v Consellería de Educación e Ordenación Universitaria de la Xunta de Galicia (C-444/09)
Cites 22: Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (consolidated 2016); Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time; Helga Kutz-Bauer v Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (C-187/00); Impact v Minister for Agriculture and Food and Others (C-268/06); Council Directive 93/104/EC of 23 November 1993 concerning certain aspects of the organization of working time; Council Directive 97/81/EC of 15 December 1997 concerning the Framework Agreement on part-time work concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC - Annex : Framework agreement on part-time work; Evangelina Gómez-Limón Sánchez-Camacho v Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social (INSS), Tesorería General de la Seguridad Social (TGSS) and Alcampo SA (C-537/07); Council Directive 96/34/EC of 3 June 1996 on the framework agreement on parental leave concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC; Yolanda Del Cerro Alonso v Osakidetza-Servicio Vasco de Salud (C-307/05); Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging v Staat der Nederlanden (C-124/05); Gerhard Schultz-Hoff v Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund and Stringer and Others v Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (C-350/06); Hilde Schönheit v Stadt Frankfurt am Main and Silvia Becker v Land Hessen (C-4/02, C-5/02); C. D. Robinson-Steele v R. D. Retail Services Ltd, Michael Jason Clarke v Frank Staddon Ltd and J. C. Caulfield and Others v Hanson Clay Products Ltd (C-131/04, C-257/04); Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast); Francisco Vicente Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA (C-277/08); Christel Meerts v Proost NV (C-116/08); The Queen v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, ex parte Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematographic and Theatre Union (BECTU) (C-173/99); María Paz Merino Gómez v Continental Industrias del Caucho SA (C-342/01); Harald Weigel and Ingrid Weigel v Finanzlandesdirektion für Vorarlberg (C-387/01); Konstantinos Adeneler and Others v Ellinikos Organismos Galaktos (ELOG) (C-212/04); Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP; Hans-Jürgen Ritter-Coulais and Monique Ritter-Coulais v Finanzamt Germersheim (C-152/03)