CELEX: C2007/056/15
Language: en
Date: 2007-03-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-385/05: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 18 January 2007 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'Etat (France)) — Confédération générale du travail, CFDT — Confédération française démocratique du travail, Confédération française de l'encadrement (CGC), Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens (CFTC), Confédération générale du travail — Force ouvrière v Premier ministre, Ministre de l'Emploi, de la Cohésion sociale et du Logement (Social policy — Directives 98/59/EC and 2002/14/EC — Collective redundancies — Information and consultation of employees — Method for calculating the thresholds of workers employed — Member States' powers — Exclusion of employees belonging to a certain age group)

10.3.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 56/9
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 18 January 2007 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'Etat (France)) — Confédération générale du travail, CFDT — Confédération française démocratique du travail, Confédération française de l'encadrement (CGC), Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens (CFTC), Confédération générale du travail — Force ouvrière v Premier ministre, Ministre de l'Emploi, de la Cohésion sociale et du Logement
   (Case C-385/05) (1)
   
   (Social policy - Directives 98/59/EC and 2002/14/EC - Collective redundancies - Information and consultation of employees - Method for calculating the thresholds of workers employed - Member States' powers - Exclusion of employees belonging to a certain age group)
   (2007/C 56/15)
   Language of the case: French
   Referring court
   Conseil d'Etat
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicants: Confédération générale du travail, CFDT — Confédération française démocratique du travail, Confédération française de l'encadrement (CGC), Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens (CFTC), Confédération générale du travail — Force ouvrière
   
      Defendants: Premier ministre, Ministre de l'Emploi, de la Cohésion sociale et du Logement
   Re:
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Conseil d'Etat (France) — Interpretation of Article 3(1) of Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community (OJ 2002 L 80, p. 29), and of Article 1 of Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies (OJ 1998 L 225, p. 16) — Obligation on undertakings to inform and consult employees where the number of their employees exceeds a certain threshold — National legislation excluding from the calculation of staff numbers employees aged under 26
   Operative part of the judgment
   
               1.
            
            
               Article 3(1) of Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which excludes, even temporarily, a specific category of workers from the calculation of staff numbers within the meaning of that provision.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Article 1(1)(a) of Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which excludes, even temporarily, a specific category of workers from the calculation of staff numbers set out in that provision.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 330, 24.12.2005.