After years of efforts, employees of the Armed Forces have achieved that on-call duty at a workplace or a specific location is counted as working time, which means that employees are entitled to pay for this time as for regular work, i.e. 100% of the hourly rate. Paying for on-call duty at a specific location or workplace has been the subject of several lawsuits in the past, initiated by the Soldiers' Union. In July 2021, the Court of Justice of the EU upheld the decision, and in March 2022, the Supreme Court of Slovenia also upheld it.
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