EU: ruling by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg underlines the distinction between daily and weekly rest times

In a ruling handed down on 02 March 2023, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg recalls that daily and weekly rest periods are distinct rights that cannot overlap. The case for which the ruling was handed down concerned a dispute between a train driver and his employer, the Hungarian railway company MÁV-Start. According to the collective agreement, the company granted the train driver a daily rest period of twelve hours between two work periods and a weekly rest period of at least forty-e