Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 01/20/2011

Subject: The Court, clarifying notion of transfer, affirmed that Directive 2001/23/EC on the approximation of the laws relating to the safeguarding of employees’ rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses does not apply to a situation in which a municipal authority which has contracted out the cleaning of its premises to a private company decides to terminate its contract with that company and to undertake the cleaning of those premises itself by hiring new staff for that purpose

Parties: CLECE

Classification: Solidarity - Art. 28 Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: organisation - Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: negotiations - Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: collective agreements - Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: collective actions - Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: strike

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