Once a firm has a certain number of staff, Directive 2002/14 requires companies to establish bodies for informing and consulting employees. However, do apprentices and other people being reintegrated onto the labour market count as staff?
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Case C-150/12, Brännström – Ryanair strain leaves passengers taking the train
When can an airline avoid paying compensation for an ‘extraordinary circumstance’ under Article 5(3) of Regulation 261/2004?
Continue readingCase C-202/12, Innoweb – search engines copying insubstantial parts of a website
Can a company use the EU’s Database Directive 96/9 to stop minute parts of its website turning up on a rival website?
Continue readingCase C-657/11, Belgian Electronic Sorting Technology – does a domain name advertise?
Does the EU’s Misleading Advertising Directive 2006/114 mean that the concept of ‘advertising’ covers the domain name of a website or its metatags?
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