An employee of Connexxion Tours was seconded for some time to Connexxion Openbaar Vervoer N.V., located in a different place than his own residence and place of work. He requested travel time compensation and based his claim on a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Skills ruling). The employee argued that this ruling establishes that his travel time should be considered working time, as it was concluded that the time an employee needs to reach their non-fixed workplace from home or from the employer’s place of work or establishment is working time and not rest time.
The Court of Arnhem-Leeuwarden partly agreed with him but he did not become richer from it. In the Skills ruling, a decision was made about the interpretation of travel time as working time (within the meaning of European regulations), but it was not determined that travel time must also be paid. Dutch law does not include an obligation to compensate travel time, even if that travel time is to be considered working time within the meaning of article 1.7 under k of the Working Hours Act, and the applicable collective labor agreement did not contain such a provision either. 
