Lawrie-Blum v Land Baden-Württemberg
Lawrie-Blum v Land Baden-Württemberg | |
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Court | European Court of Justice |
Decided | 3 July 1986 |
Citation(s) | Case 66/85, [1986] ECR 2121 |
Keywords | |
Contract of employment |
Lawrie-Blum v Land Baden-Württemberg (1986) Case 66/85 was a
Facts
Deborah Lawrie-Blum was a British national who had passed the first stage of
The Administrative Court Freiburg and subsequently the Higher Administrative Court for the State of Baden-Württemberg (Verwaltungsgerichtshof) held that a trainee teacher was not a ‘worker’ within the terms of Article 48(1) of the
Judgment
The ECJ stated that the concept of ‘worker’ in Article 48 should be interpreted broadly as (I) a person (II) performing services (III) under the direction of another (IV) for remuneration, and that included a trainee teacher. Article 48(4) is to be construed narrowly, and only to safeguard a state’s interests,
17. The essential feature of an employment relationship, however, is that for a certain period of time a person performs services for and under the direction of another person in return for which he receives remuneration.
See also
- Contract of employment
- UK labour law
- EU labour law
- German labour law