sec_1__para__5

It is not the status of the person under national law that is decisive for the applicability of the Working Time Directive. For example, in Matzak, the Court qualified a volunteer firefighter under Belgian law as ‘worker’ in the meaning of the Directive (42). Instead, the applicability of the Directive will depend on whether the person concerned qualifies as a ‘worker’ according to the EU jurisprudential definition of worker. This is based on aspects of his or her concrete working arrangements, in particular on whether the person performs effective and genuine activities under the direction and supervision of another person and for remuneration.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.