Further to a decision of close-down of an undertaking, the Greek jurisdiction thought that the employer did not have to be subjected to the obligations of the directive relating to economic dismissals. This interpretation is condemned by the CJEC. (Ref 06872)
The American Goodyear group decided, on July 19th, 1996, to close a plant in Greece as from July 22nd of the same year. Employment contracts of the 340 employees were cancelled as from the same date, but the conditions and procedures for collective redundancies laid down by the transposition law of directive 75/129 of 17 February 1975, were not observed.
No judicial decision. The employees challenged their redundancy in justice and, twice, the jurisdiction dismissed their demand, « in accordance
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