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Employment

20 February 2015
Issue: 7641 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Mertens v Raad van bestur van het Uitvoeringsinstituut werknemersverzekeringen C-655/13, [2015] All ER (D) 120 (Feb)

The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Art 71(1)(a)(i) of Regulation No 1408/71 (on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community), as amended, should be interpreted as meaning that a frontier worker who, immediately after the end of a full-time employment relationship with an employer in a member state, had been employed on a part-time basis by another employer in that same member state had the status of a partially unemployed frontier worker within the meaning of that provision.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

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