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European Court of Justice (ECJ), March 19, 2020
ECJ 19 March 2020, joined cases C-103/18 and C-429/18 (Sánchez Ruiz and Fernández Álvarez and Others v Comunidad de Madrid), Fixed-term work
Domingo Sánchez Ruiz; Berta Fernández Álvarez and others - v - Comunidad de Madrid (Servicio Madrileño de Salud), Spanish case

Summary

Clause 5 of the Framework Agreement on fixed-term work applies also to workers who continuously occupy interim posts based on successive fixed-term contracts in the absence of a recruitment procedure.
No English translation of the case has been made available yet, but the ECJ’s summary in English can be found here: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_2934265/en/