Originally Posted by
Eric Janson
I'm not a legal expert but I believe this decision can now by used as a precedent across the EU.
No. Legal precedent is fudamental to common law used by most anglo-saxon countries (US, UK, Canada, etc.) and many of the former colonies. Continental European countries use civil law, where rulings are based on the Civil Code (or Employment Law in this case) and precedents are usually only admissible if there is some ambiguity in applying the relevant statutes. As others have said, each EU country will have its own Employment Law, which will apply to any case in that jurisdiction. However paradoxically the ruling CAN be used as a precedent in the UK which has a different legal system, whether successfully or not is another question.