Ersättning vid mertidsarbete - En granskning av EU-domstolens syn på arbete utöver den avtalade sysselsättningsgraden
(2025) LAGF03 20251Faculty of Law
Department of Law
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Deltidsanställning är vanligt förekommande inom branscher som vård, handel och service, där arbetskraftsbehovet ofta varierar. Samtidigt aktualiserar del-tidsarbete frågor om rättvisa och skydd mot diskriminering. Denna uppsats behandlar frågan om det är förenligt med diskrimineringsförbudet att inte utge samma tillägg vid mertidsarbete som vid övertidsarbete.
Uppsatsen tar utgångspunkt i förbudet mot diskriminering i rådets direktiv 97/81/EG, och EU-domstolens praxis i mål C-660/20 samt de förenade målen C-184/22 och C-185/22. Uppsatsens behandlar också lag (2002:293) om för-bud mot diskriminering av deltidsarbetande arbetstagare och arbetstagare med tidsbegränsad anställning och hur ersättningsfrågor reglerats i svenska kollek-tivavtal.... (More) - Deltidsanställning är vanligt förekommande inom branscher som vård, handel och service, där arbetskraftsbehovet ofta varierar. Samtidigt aktualiserar del-tidsarbete frågor om rättvisa och skydd mot diskriminering. Denna uppsats behandlar frågan om det är förenligt med diskrimineringsförbudet att inte utge samma tillägg vid mertidsarbete som vid övertidsarbete.
Uppsatsen tar utgångspunkt i förbudet mot diskriminering i rådets direktiv 97/81/EG, och EU-domstolens praxis i mål C-660/20 samt de förenade målen C-184/22 och C-185/22. Uppsatsens behandlar också lag (2002:293) om för-bud mot diskriminering av deltidsarbetande arbetstagare och arbetstagare med tidsbegränsad anställning och hur ersättningsfrågor reglerats i svenska kollek-tivavtal. EU-domstolen har slagit fast att en ordning där övertidsersättning endast utgår efter ett fast tröskelvärde, oberoende av arbetstagarens individu-ellt avtalade sysselsättningsgrad, innebär en mindre förmånlig behandling av deltidsanställda.
Uppsatsens syfte är att, genom en rättsdogmatisk metod, utreda huruvida det är diskriminerande att utge lägre tillägg vid mertidsarbete än vid övertidsar-bete. Detta görs genom att fastställa gällande rätt utifrån rättskällor såsom lag-text, praxis, förarbeten och doktrin. Därtill omfattar uppsatsen ett rättskritiskt perspektiv, där EU-domstolens bedömning granskas utifrån dess rättsliga och praktiska konsekvenser.
Utredningen visar att EU-domstolen förespråkar en tolkning där övertidser-sättning ska knytas till varje arbetstagare individuellt avtalade arbetstid. Samti-digt visar analysen att en sådan lösning riskerar att medföra praktiska och rättsliga orimligheter, exempelvis att deltidsanställda för högre ersättning än heltidsanställda för samma arbete. (Less) - Abstract
- Part-time employment is common in sectors such as health care, retail and service, where the need of labour often varies. At the same time, part-time employment raises issues of fairness and protection against discrimination. This thesis addresses the question of whether it is compatible with the prohi-bition of discrimination to grant lower additional pay for part-time employees working extra hours than for full-time employees working overtime.
This thesis is based on the principle of the Council Directive 97/81/EG, focus-ing on the case law Court of justice of the European Union in case C-660/20 and the joined cases C-184/22 and C-185/22. This thesis also examines the Swedish Act (2002:293) on the Prohibition of Discrimination of... (More) - Part-time employment is common in sectors such as health care, retail and service, where the need of labour often varies. At the same time, part-time employment raises issues of fairness and protection against discrimination. This thesis addresses the question of whether it is compatible with the prohi-bition of discrimination to grant lower additional pay for part-time employees working extra hours than for full-time employees working overtime.
This thesis is based on the principle of the Council Directive 97/81/EG, focus-ing on the case law Court of justice of the European Union in case C-660/20 and the joined cases C-184/22 and C-185/22. This thesis also examines the Swedish Act (2002:293) on the Prohibition of Discrimination of Part-Time Workers and Workers with Fixed-Term Employment, as well as how issues of compensation are regulated in Swedish collective agreements. The Court of justice of the European Union has established that a system where overtime pay is only paid after a fixed threshold, regardless of the employee's individu-ally determined degree of employment, entails a less favourable treatment of part-time employees.
The purpose of the thesis is, through a legal-dogmatic method, to investigate whether it is discriminating to pay lower supplements for additional work than for overtime work. This is done by identifying the applicable law based on legal sources such as statutory text, practice, preparatory works and doctrine. In addition, the paper includes a critical perspective, in which the Court of justice of the European Union assessment is examined in light of its legal and practical consequences.
The study shows that the Court of Justice of the European Union advocates an interpretation where overtime compensation is to be linked to each employ-ee's individually agreed working hours. At the same time, the analysis shows that such a solution may cause practical unreasonableness, such as part-time workers being paid more than full-time workers for the same work. (Less)
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- Palmqvist, Emma LU
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- LAGF03 20251
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Arbetsrätt, Eu-rätt
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- Swedish
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- 9190374
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abstract = {{Part-time employment is common in sectors such as health care, retail and service, where the need of labour often varies. At the same time, part-time employment raises issues of fairness and protection against discrimination. This thesis addresses the question of whether it is compatible with the prohi-bition of discrimination to grant lower additional pay for part-time employees working extra hours than for full-time employees working overtime.
This thesis is based on the principle of the Council Directive 97/81/EG, focus-ing on the case law Court of justice of the European Union in case C-660/20 and the joined cases C-184/22 and C-185/22. This thesis also examines the Swedish Act (2002:293) on the Prohibition of Discrimination of Part-Time Workers and Workers with Fixed-Term Employment, as well as how issues of compensation are regulated in Swedish collective agreements. The Court of justice of the European Union has established that a system where overtime pay is only paid after a fixed threshold, regardless of the employee's individu-ally determined degree of employment, entails a less favourable treatment of part-time employees.
The purpose of the thesis is, through a legal-dogmatic method, to investigate whether it is discriminating to pay lower supplements for additional work than for overtime work. This is done by identifying the applicable law based on legal sources such as statutory text, practice, preparatory works and doctrine. In addition, the paper includes a critical perspective, in which the Court of justice of the European Union assessment is examined in light of its legal and practical consequences.
The study shows that the Court of Justice of the European Union advocates an interpretation where overtime compensation is to be linked to each employ-ee's individually agreed working hours. At the same time, the analysis shows that such a solution may cause practical unreasonableness, such as part-time workers being paid more than full-time workers for the same work.}},
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title = {{Ersättning vid mertidsarbete - En granskning av EU-domstolens syn på arbete utöver den avtalade sysselsättningsgraden}},
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