employment relationship for an unlimited period | open-ended employment relationship

contract of indeterminate duration

permanent position [ continuing position | indeterminate position ]

open-ended contract | open-ended employment contract

perpetual floating-rate note [ perpetual floating rate note | perpetual FRN | perpetual floater ]

perpetual floating rate note | perpetual floating-rate note | perpetual floating rate bond

fixed-term employment relationship

indeterminate obligation

Ordinance of 26 January 1972 on Employment in Public Transport Companies | Working Hours Ordinance [ WHO ]

IT has differentiated between employment contracts of indefinite duration, for which the period of validity is set at two years, and all other contracts, for which the period is the duration of the work contract plus three months.

MSs are encouraged to take the realities of the labour market into account as permanent employment contracts may be increasingly unusual, especially at the beginning of an employment relationship.

Request for a preliminary ruling — Tribunale di Napoli — Interpretation of Clause 4 of the framework agreement set out in Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP (OJ 1999 L 175, p 43) — Scope — Concept of ‘working conditions’ — Horizontal applicability of that directive — Concept of ‘State body’ — Interpretation of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 6 ECHR — Principle of equivalence — National legislation establishing a system of compensation for the unlawful insertion of a fixed-term clause into an employment contract providing for comprehensive compensation ranging ...[+++]from 2.5 to 12 months’ actual full pay for the period from the interruption of the employment relations until the date of actual reinstatement — Compensation lower than either the compensation provided for under the ordinary civil law in the event of unjustified refusal to accept work or the compensation provided for in the event of unlawful termination of an employment contract of indefinite duration.

Application: brought under Articles 236 EC and 152 EA, whereby Ms Clarke, Ms Papathanasiou and Ms Periañez-González, members of the temporary staff of OHIM, seek, in particular, first, annulment of OHIM’s decisions of 7 March 2008 rejecting their requests for the cancellation of the termination clause in their contracts of employment, containing the requirement that the member of staff concerned participate successfully in an open competition, and a declaration by OHIM that their contracts of employment of indefinite duration would be maintained; and, second, an order that OHIM pay damages.