Different contracts for the same employer won’t change that.
People in a tram in downtown Rome on Monday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
(CN) A worker must have at least 11 hours of rest during a work day even if she is doing work connected to more than one contract for the same employer, Europe’s highest court decided on Wednesday.
The European Court of Justice ruling came in a case involving European Union grant money that went to experts at Romania’s University of Economic Studies in Bucharest.
In 2012 and 2013, the experts filed timesheets exceeding the EU’s rules that say employees cannot work more than 13 hours in a single day. The experts justified their longer days by adding hours related to different contracts they had with the university.