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update on Jessy Saint Prix
Further to the Supreme Court’s October 2012 judgment in Jessy Saint Prix v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - that relates to whether an EU national who left work due to pregnancy retained a right to reside in the UK - the Aire Centre hs published an update on proceedings in the ECJ
Advocate General Wahl is due to deliver his opinion on the case on 12 December 2013.
Advocate General Wahl is due to deliver his opinion on the case on 12 December 2013.
Here it is
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:62012CC0507:EN:HTML
CJEU has decided, in favour of Jessy Saint Prix, that a woman who stops working or work seeking in the late stages of pregnancy and after child is born can retain worker status provided she returns to work or finds another job within a reasonable period after confinement -
here’s press release - still waiting for judgment itself -
http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-06/cp140086en.pdf
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here’s the judgment - rightsnet news story to follow -
here’s rightsnet news story -
here’s the AIRE Centre’s comment on the judgment
http://www.airecentre.org/news.php/140/cjeu-judgement-in-saint-prix
We’ve just been informed that the Supreme Court has now ratified this decision.