EU: the CJEC will speak out on the enforceability of the “transfer of undertaking” Directive when a part of the staff of a temporary work company is tranfered to another agency

In its opinion presented on March 22, 2007, the general attorney Bot offered the Court of Justice of the European Communities (CJEC) to declare that the transfer of a part of the administrative and temporary staff of a temp work company into another company, to perform similar tasks serving the same clients, is coming within the area of the 2001/23 directive on the maintaining of workers' rights in the event of transfer of undertaking. (Ref. 070276)
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The Court is invited to speak out on the enforcement of the 2001/23 directive on the maintaining of workers’ rights in the event of a company transfer, when a part of the administrative and temporary staff of a temporary work agency is transferred into another temporary work company. In this particular case, managers of the Mayer temp work company, in a bad financial situation, created – on their main customer’s demand – a new temp work company (PPS) which hired again a part of the administrati

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