de Diego Porras v Ministerio de Defensa

Subject Matter

EMPLOYMENT — Contract of employment — Fixed-term contracts — Claimant employed under several fixed-term contracts replacing absent workers — Compensation not payable on termination of fixed-term replacement contracts when payable to permanent workers — Whether difference in treatment contrary to EU law — Whether capable of objective justification — Council Directive 1999/70/EC, Annex, cl 4

(Case C-596/14); EU:C:2016:683; [2016] ICR 1184; [2016] WLR (D) 485, ECJ