France : Constitutional Council’s decision on 14 April 2023

The Constitutional Council’s decision on 14 April 2023 found in favour of the government, which went ahead and, on 15 April, published amending finance law no. 2023-270 of 14 April 2023 for the social security system for 2023, reforming the pension system, despite...

CJEU: Case  C477/21, MÁV-START, 2 March 2023

Interpreting Directive 2003/88/EC of 4 November 2003, concerning the organisation of working time, the EU Court of Justice has ruled that the daily rest period of 11 consecutive hours (Article 3) is not part of the weekly rest period of 24 hours (Article 5), but is...

European Court of Human Rights, Case of Halet v. Luxembourg

The European Court of Human Rights has delivered an important judgment in a case involving Raphaël Halet and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In the “Luxleaks” case, this employee handed over to a journalist fourteen tax returns submitted by multinational companies and...