26Furthermore, according to the case-law of the Court, in the context of Article 45 TFEU, a person who, for a certain period of time, performs services for and under the direction of another person in return for which he receives remuneration must be considered to be a ‘worker’. Once the employment relationship has ended, the person concerned as a rule loses his status of worker, although that status may produce certain effects after the relationship has ended, and a person who is genuinely seeking work must also be classified as a worker (see Case C-85/96 Martínez Sala [1998] ECR I-2691, paragraph 32 and the case-law cited).
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