CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 10 septembre 2019

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s379BC09C { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s9793A85B { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt } .s5E1364CA { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s339D85E6 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s665E407E { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s7E985A5F { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; font-size:7pt } .sB1AFDE2D { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left; font-size:14pt } .s4ACA9207 { page-break-before:always; clear:both; mso-break-type:section-break } .s6DB91820 { text-align:center } .s8BB62139 { margin-right:auto; margin-left:auto; border-collapse:collapse } .sEA321EE2 { border-top:0.75pt solid #5f5f5f; border-right:0.75pt solid #f8f8f8; border-left:0.75pt solid #5f5f5f; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #5f5f5f; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#5f5f5f } .s2EF62ED2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt } .s3FAB130A { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; color:#f8f8f8 } .sE8D23146 { border-top:0.75pt solid #5f5f5f; border-right:0.75pt solid #f8f8f8; border-left:0.75pt solid #f8f8f8; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #5f5f5f; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#5f5f5f } .s69AE3175 { border-top:0.75pt solid #5f5f5f; border-right:0.75pt solid #5f5f5f; border-left:0.75pt solid #f8f8f8; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #5f5f5f; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#5f5f5f } .sAE011EF4 { border:0.75pt solid #5f5f5f; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top } .sEA7BCE7D { border:0.75pt solid #0072bc; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#e8e8e8 } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } Communicated on 10 September 2019   FIFTH SECTION Application no. 59433/18 Karin HUMPERT against Germany and 3 other applications (see list appended) SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The applications concern the right of civil servants to strike. The applicants are teachers, all employed by different Bundesländer as civil servants. As an expression of their support for a social movement requesting an improvement of learning conditions, including in particular an improvement of the working conditions for teachers, they did not appear at work for between one hour and three days. They were subsequently subjected to disciplinary sanctions for having been on strike. Domestic remedies before different administrative courts and the Federal Constitutional Court were to no avail. The Federal Constitutional Court held that the Basic Law obliged civil servants not to strike, which it considered compatible with the exigencies of the European Convention of Human Rights and the Court’s case-law. The applicants complained under Articles 11 and 14 of the Convention that the obligation not to strike was not prescribed by law, disproportionate and, in comparison with teachers employed on a contractual basis, discriminatory. They moreover complained under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention that the Federal Constitutional Court had failed to consider international treaties on the matter. QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES 1.     Has there been a violation of the applicants’ right to freedom of association, contrary to Article   11 of the Convention?   2.     Have the applicants suffered discrimination in the enjoyment of their Convention rights, contrary to Article 14 of the Convention?           No. Application no. Case name Applicant Date of Birth Place of Residence Nationality Represented by 1 59433/18 Humpert v. Germany Karin HUMPERT 01/01/1961 Rantrum, German Hans Rudolf BUSCHMANN 2 59477/18 Wienrank v. Germany Kerstin WIENRANK 01/02/1960 Bremerhaven, German Hans Rudolf BUSCHMANN 3 59481/18 Grabs v. Germany Eberhard GRABS 22/11/1951 Neuenhaus, German Hans Rudolf BUSCHMANN 4 59494/18 Dahl v. Germany Monika DAHL 07/06/1965 Diemelstadt, German Hans Rudolf BUSCHMANN