The European Commission is to refer Ireland, Belgium and Spain to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to notify national measures fully transposing an EU directive on work-life balance rights for parents and carers.
The commission said it will ask the court to impose financial sanctions on the three member states.
The EU Work-Life Balance Directive, adopted in 2019, is designed to enable working parents to better reconcile professional and private lives.
The deadline for transposition of the provisions of the Work-life Balance Directive into national law was 2 August…