# Directive (EU) 2019/1152 — transparent and predictable working conditions (employment)

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- Jurisdiction: European Union
- Type: Directive
- Identifier: 32019L1152
- Current as of: 31 July 2019
- Provisions: 26
- Official text: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/1152/oj

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## Provisions

- **Protection from dismissal and burden of proof**: 1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to prohibit the dismissal or its equivalent and all…
- **Penalties**: Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive or the…
- **Transitional arrangements**: The rights and obligations set out in this Directive shall apply to all employment relationships by 1 August 2022. However, an…
- **Transition to another form of employment**: 1. Member States shall ensure that a worker with at least six months’ service with the same employer, who has…
- **Definitions**: For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions apply: (a) ‘work schedule’ means the schedule determining the hours and days on which…
- **Right to redress**: Member States shall ensure that workers, including those whose employment relationship has ended, have access to effective and impartial…
- **Collective agreements**: Member States may allow the social partners to maintain, negotiate, conclude and enforce collective agreements, in conformity with the…
- **Obligation to provide information**: 1. Member States shall ensure that employers are required to inform workers of the essential aspects of the employment…
- **Protection against adverse treatment or consequences**: Member States shall introduce the measures necessary to protect workers, including those who are workers’…
- **Timing and means of information**: 1. Where not previously provided, the information referred to in points (a) to (e), (g), (k), (l) and (m) of Article 4(2) shall…
- **Legal presumptions and early settlement mechanism**: 1. Member States shall ensure that, where a worker has not received in due time all or part of the documents…
- **Modification of the employment relationship**: 1. Member States shall ensure that any change in the aspects of the employment relationship referred to in Article…
- **Purpose, subject matter and scope**: 1. The purpose of this Directive is to improve working conditions by promoting more transparent and predictable employment…
- **Complementary measures for on-demand contracts**: Where Member States allow for the use of on-demand or similar employment contracts, they shall take one or more…
- **Parallel employment**: 1. Member States shall ensure that an employer neither prohibits a worker from taking up employment with other employers, outside the work…
- **Repeal**: Directive 91/533/EEC shall be repealed with effect from 1 August 2022. References to the repealed Directive shall be construed as references to this…
- **Provision of information**: The employer shall provide each worker with the information required pursuant to this Directive in writing. The information shall be…
- **Maximum duration of any probationary period**: 1. Member States shall ensure that, where an employment relationship is subject to a probationary period as defined…
- **Additional information for workers sent to another Member State or to a third country**: 1. Member States shall ensure that, where a worker is required to work in…
- **Review by the Commission**: By 1 August 2027, the Commission shall, after consulting the Member States and the social partners at Union level and taking into…
- **Transposition and implementation**: 1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to comply with this Directive by 1 August 2022. They shall immediately…
- **Non-regression and more favourable provisions**: 1. This Directive shall not constitute valid grounds for reducing the general level of protection already…
- **Entry into force**: This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
- **Minimum predictability of work**: 1. Member States shall ensure that where a worker’s work pattern is entirely or mostly unpredictable the worker shall not be…
- **Addressees**: This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
- **Mandatory training**: Member States shall ensure that where an employer is required by Union or national law or by collective agreements to provide training to a…
- **Purpose, subject matter and scope**: (14). 6. Member States may provide, on objective grounds, that the provisions laid down in Chapter III are not to apply to…
- **Additional information for workers sent to another Member State or to a third country**: (15). 3. The information referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 and…
- **Obligation to provide information**: 2. The information referred to in paragraph 1 shall include at least the following: (a) the identities of the parties to the…

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