03 Fév Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Directive 1999/70/EC – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP…
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Directive 1999/70/EC – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Clauses 4 and 5 – Fixed-term employment contracts in the public sector – Catholic religious education teachers – Concept of ‘objective reasons’ justifying the renewal of such contracts – Permanent need for replacement staff.
ECJ, 13 January 2022, Case C-282/19, YT and Others v Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca – MIUR and Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Campania.
https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=252122&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=251317
Clause 5 of the framework agreement on fixed-term work, concluded on 18 March 1999, which is annexed to Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP, must be interpreted, first, as precluding national legislation excluding Catholic religious education teachers in public education establishments from the scope of the rules intended to penalise abuse arising from the use of successive fixed-term contracts where there is no other effective measure in the domestic legal system penalising that abuse and, second, as meaning that the requirement to hold a suitability certificate issued by an ecclesiastical authority for the purposes of allowing those teachers to provide Catholic religious education does not constitute an ‘objective reason’ within the meaning of Clause 5(1)(a) of the framework agreement, because that certificate is issued once and not before each school year leading to the conclusion of a fixed-term employment contract.
