## [CEJ judgement regarding stand-by duty as working time](/en_GB/new/cej-judgement-regarding-stand-duty-working-time)
# CEJ judgement regarding stand-by duty as working time
Portugal - 03 / 07 / 2018
Labor and Employment Law Alert 11-2018
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**[Judgment of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the case C-518/15](http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=9ea7d0f130de561b9129170046d1ad5f9d73368e4486.e34KaxiLc3eQc40LaxqMbN4Pb30Re0?text=&docid=199508&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=442670) was published, in which ECJ had to define once again if stand-by time regime, where an employee has to be available to the employer, should be considered “working time” or “rest period”.**
In previous case-law, ECJ considered that stand-by time should be considered “working time” if the employee had to be physically present in his workplace during the stand-by period.
In the above-mentioned judgement, ECJ introduces a new element in order to determine if a given stand-by regime should be considered “working time”, pointing out that in a situation where an employee is subject to a stand-by regime that obliges him to be at his place, at the employer’s disposal, in order to be able to reach his workplace within 8 minutes, shall be considered “working time”.
This judgement has impact on Portuguese jurisdiction, as it constitutes an ECJ’s interpretation of [Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 4 November 2003](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32003L0088&qid=1520357486647&from=PT), that has been transformed into national law, and Portuguese Courts’ interpretation of national law should be in line with the one of ECJ.
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