LIST OF CASES / Landeshaupstadt Kiel v Jaeger ECJ 2003

ECJ Case C-151/02 on 9th September 2003, reported at [2004] ICR 1528 (also at [2003] IRLR 805)
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Landeshaupstadt Kiel v Jaeger ECJ Case C-151/02 on 9th September 2003 reported at [2004] ICR 1528 (also at [2003] IRLR 805 ECJ)

The full text judgment in this case is available free of charge on the BAILII web-site

Authority for the proposition that:-

time spent on call by a doctor in a hospital constitutes "working time" for the purposes of the EC Working Time Directive 93/104/EC, even if the doctor is able to rest or sleep in hospital accommodation during the period on duty.

For relevant general notes see Working Time Regulations/doctors and/or at Specific employments/offshore workers and/or at Working Time Regulations/compensatory rest and/or at Working Time Regulations/problem areas .

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prepared Nov2003.