Request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein oikeus (Finland) lodged on 29 March 2016 — Hannele Hälvä, Sari Naukkarinen, Pirjo Paajanen, Satu Piik v SOS-Lapsikylä ry

(Case C-175/16)

(2016/C 191/24)

Language of the case: Finnish

Referring court

Korkein oikeus

Parties to the main proceedings

Appellants: Hannele Hälvä, Sari Naukkarinen, Pirjo Paajanen, Satu Piik

Respondent: SOS-Lapsikylä ry

Question referred

Must Article 17(1) of Directive 2003/88/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time be interpreted as including within its scope an activity, as described above, performed in a children’s home in which the worker acts as the representative of foster parents of children in care on the parents’ days off, lives during this period with the children in a family-like setting and during this time independently attends equally to the children’s and family’s needs, as parents generally do?

(1)  OJ 2003 L 299, p. 9.