1. 

Social policy — Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP — Directive 1999/70 — Conditions of employment — Concept — Compensation paid to a worker on account of termination of his contract — Included

(Council Directive 1999/70, Annex, clause 4, point 1)

(see para. 33)

2. 

Social policy — Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP — Directive 1999/70 — Workers doing the same or similar work — Concept — Workers in a similar situation — Criteria for assessment — Nature of the work, training requirements and working conditions — Determination by the national court

(Council Directive 1999/70, Annex, clauses 3, point 2, and 4, point 1)

(see paras 35, 37)

3. 

Social policy — Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP — Directive 1999/70 — Objective reasons justifying different treatment — Concept — Compensation in the event of termination of an employment contract of indefinite duration on objective grounds — No compensation upon the termination of the post of workers employed as auxiliary staff performing duties consisting in positions of trust or involving the performance of special advisory functions — Lawfulness

(Council Directive 1999/70, Annex, clause 4, point 1)

(see paras 40-48, operative part 1)

4. 

Questions referred for a preliminary ruling — Admissibility — Limits — Clearly irrelevant questions and hypothetical questions put in a context not permitting a useful answer — Questions bearing no relation to the subject matter of the case in the main proceedings — Inadmissibility

(Art. 267 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 53(2))

(see paras 53, 54, 57-60, operative part 2)

1. 

Clause 4, point 1, of the Framework agreement on fixed-term work, concluded on 18 March 1999, which is included in the Annex to Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP, must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which does not provide for the payment of any compensation to workers employed as members of auxiliary staff performing duties consisting in positions of trust or involving the performance of special advisory functions, such as the workers at issue in the main proceedings, upon the termination at the employer’s discretion of their post, whereas compensation is allocated to staff employed under a contract for an indefinite period upon the termination of their employment contract for an objective reason.

2. 

The second and third questions referred by the Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court, Spain) are manifestly inadmissible.