Court of Justice (Fifth Chamber) 8 November 2012, C‑229/11 and C‑230/11 (Alexander Heimann and Konstantin Toltschin v Kaiser GmbH.)

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Fifth Chamber) 8 November 2012 ( *1 ) ‛Social policy — Directive 2003/88/EC — Short-time working (‘Kurzarbeit’) — Reduction of paid annual leave on the basis of short-time working — Allowance in lieu’ In Joined Cases C‑229/11 and C‑230/11, REFERENCES for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Arbeitsgericht Passau (Germany), made by decision of 13 April 2011,