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The European Union Court of Justice \u2013 asked to rule on the EU directive no. 2003\/88 concerning working time \u2013 established with its decision on 10 September 2015 issued for case C266\/14, that journeys by employees with no fixed or habitual place of work (so-called travelling workers), from their homes to that of their first or last customer, designated by the employer, fall into the case of \u201cworking hours\u201d. The Judges decided based on the assumption that the workers, within the timeframe of their job, are at the employer\u2019s disposal, and must follow the employer\u2019s instructions and thus cannot pursue their own interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European Union Court of Justice \u2013 asked to rule on the EU directive no. 2003\/88 concerning working time \u2013 established with its decision on 10 September 2015 issued for case C266\/14, that journeys by employees with no fixed or habitual place of work (so-called travelling workers), from their homes to that of their first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,177,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-law","category-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEuropean Court of Justice: for workers with no habitual place of work, the home \u2013 customer journey is considered working time - De Luca & Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22825\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"European Court of Justice: for workers with no habitual place of work, the home \u2013 customer journey is considered working time - 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