34The Court has also stated that consideration classified as pay specifically includes consideration paid by the employer under a contract of employment whose purpose is to ensure that workers receive income even where, in certain specific cases, they are not performing any work provided for in their contracts of employment. Moreover, the fact that such benefits are in the nature of pay cannot be called in question merely because they can also be regarded as reflecting considerations of social policy (judgments of 9 December 2004, Hlozek, C‑19/02, EU:C:2004:779, paragraph 39, and of 2 June 2016, C, C‑122/15, EU:C:2016:391, paragraph 22).
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