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This first criterion is a spatial one that corresponds to a condition that ‘the worker is at work’ or is ‘present at the workplace’. This criterion is expressed with small differences between the various linguistic versions of the Directive: for example, in English, it states ‘the worker is working’ and in German ‘ein Arbeitnehmer … arbeitet’ while in French it states ‘le travailleur est au travail’ and in Spanish ‘el trabajador permanezca en el trabajo’, not ‘le travailleur travaille’ or ‘el trabajador trabaja’.
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.