Judgment_paragraph 41 · Caisse nationale des prestations familiales v Fjola Hliddal (C‑216/12) and Pierre-Louis Bornand (C‑217/12) (C-216/12, C-217/12)

41Under Article 157(2) TFEU, ‘pay’ means ‘the ordinary basic or minimum wage or salary and any other consideration, whether in cash or in kind, which the worker receives directly or indirectly, in respect of his employment, from his employer’. It is settled case-law that that concept covers any consideration, whether immediate or future, provided that the worker receives it, albeit indirectly, in respect of his employment, from his employer, and irrespective of whether it is received under a contract of employment, by virtue of legislative provisions or on a voluntary basis (see Case C-262/88 Barber [1990] ECR I-1889, paragraph 12; Case C-66/96 Høj Pedersen and Others [1998] ECR I-7327, paragraph 32; Case C-236/98 JämO [2000] ECR I-2189, paragraph 39; and Case C-147/02 Alabaster [2004] ECR I-3101, paragraph 42).