Travelling to work is work, court rules

The European Court of Justice has ruled that employees who do not have a fixed place of work and who travel each day between their home and customers’ premises are considered to be working while making those journeys under the European Working Time Directive.

The adjudication comes in a case brought by Spanish workers at Tyco, the security systems company due to open headquarters in Cork.

Following the closure of Tyco’s regional offices in Spain in 2011, all employees there became attached to the central office in Madrid.