ECJ 25 July 2018, C-679/16 (A), Social Insurance

A (Intervener: Espoon kaupungin sosiaali- ja terveyslautakunnan yksilöasioiden jaosto), Finnish case

ECJ 25 July 2018, C-679/16 (A), Social Insurance

A (Intervener: Espoon kaupungin sosiaali- ja terveyslautakunnan yksilöasioiden jaosto), Finnish case

2018/22 What is a collective agreement? Part two (DK)

The Danish Supreme Court has upheld the decision from the Danish Eastern High Court (reported in EELC 2017/26) on the implementation of the Working Time Directive to the effect that an ‘intervention act’ can be deemed to be a collective agreement within the meaning of Article 18 of the Working Time Directive.

2018/22 What is a collective agreement? Part two (DK)

The Danish Supreme Court has upheld the decision from the Danish Eastern High Court (reported in EELC 2017/26) on the implementation of the Working Time Directive to the effect that an ‘intervention act’ can be deemed to be a collective agreement within the meaning of Article 18 of the Working Time Directive.

ECJ 7 August 2018, C-472/16 (Sigüenza), Transfer of undertakings, Dismissal/severance payment

Jorge Luís Colino Sigüenza – v –  Ayuntamiento de Valladolid, In-pulso Musical SC, Miguel del Real Llorente, Administrador Concursal Músicos y Escuela SL, Músicos y Escuela SL, Fondo de Garantía Salarial (Fogasa), Spanish case.

A suspension of operations for five months does not preclude a transfer of undertaking. Moreover, the impossibility to pay staff may constitute an ETO reason for dismissal, provided that this is not caused by deliberate measures to deprive employees from the scope of the directive.

ECJ 6 September 2018, C‑17/17 (Grenville Hampshire), Insolvency

Each ex-employee of an insolvent employer is individually entitled to at least 50% of the pension that s/he would have enjoyed, had no insolvency taken place.

Grenville Hampshire – v – The Board of the Pension Protection Fund, British case

ECJ 7 August 2018, C-472/16 (Sigüenza), Transfer of undertakings, Dismissal/severance payment

Jorge Luís Colino Sigüenza – v –  Ayuntamiento de Valladolid, In-pulso Musical SC, Miguel del Real Llorente, Administrador Concursal Músicos y Escuela SL, Músicos y Escuela SL, Fondo de Garantía Salarial (Fogasa), Spanish case.

A suspension of operations for five months does not preclude a transfer of undertaking. Moreover, the impossibility to pay staff may constitute an ETO reason for dismissal, provided that this is not caused by deliberate measures to deprive employees from the scope of the directive.

ECJ 6 September 2018, C‑17/17 (Grenville Hampshire), Insolvency

Each ex-employee of an insolvent employer is individually entitled to at least 50% of the pension that s/he would have enjoyed, had no insolvency taken place.

Grenville Hampshire – v – The Board of the Pension Protection Fund, British case

ECJ 28 June 2018, C-57/17 (Checa Honrado), Insolvency

Eva Soraya Checa Honrado – v – Fondo de Garantía Salarial

ECJ 25 July 2018, C-338/17 (Guigo), Insolvency

Virginie Marie Gabriel Guigo – v –  ‘Garantirani vzemania na rabotnitsite i sluzhitelite’ Fund, Bulgarian case