Attempt to enforce Re-engagement remedy with an injunction fails

It is a well trodden path that employment tribunals may order an unfairly dismissed employee to be re-engaged. It has also been accepted that the employer’s failure to comply results in (not a particularly hefty) additional compensatory award. The attempt by one clever lawyer to enforce that re-engagement order via an injunction has flopped in […]

ECJ holds that employers must record daily working time

In the case of Federación de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) v Deutsche Bank SAE, ECJ 14.5.19 (C-55/18).The ECJ considered the extent of employer’s record-keeping obligations in relation to the provisions of the EU Working Time Directive on maximum weekly working time and daily and weekly rest. Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European […]