Personal assistant annual leave compensation ruling referral inadmissible

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed as inadmissible the referral from the Hunedoara Tribunal seeking a preliminary ruling on whether personal assistants may receive compensation for annual leave allowance and, if so, whether that right could be claimed on 12 February 2024 for 2020–2023. The court did not rule on the merits, so no award was made and the previous proceedings continue. The case involves a civil procedure question referred under the preliminary ruling mechanism (art. 519–521 of the Romanian Code of Civil Procedure) concerning the interpretation of legislation on personal assistants’ annual leave indemnity. The dismissal was based on inadmissibility—likely because the question did not meet the statutory conditions for a preliminary ruling, such as raising a genuine issue of interpretation necessary for resolving the pending case.