CELEX: C2007/269/20
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-458/05: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 13 September 2007 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof, Austria) — Mohamed Jouini, Okay Gönen, Hasan Bajric, Gerald Huber, Manfred Ortner, Sükran Karacatepe, Franz Mühlberger, Nakil Bakii, Hannes Kranzler, Jürgen Mörth, Anton Schneeberger, Dietmar Susteric, Sascha Wörnhör, Aynur Savci, Elena Peter, Egon Schmöger, Mehmet Yaman, Dejan Preradovic, Andreas Mitter, Wolfgang Sorger, Franz Schachenhofer, Herbert Weiss, Harald Kaineder, Ognen Stajkovski, Jovica Vidovic v Princess Personal Service GmbH (PPS) (Social policy — Directive 2001/23/EC — Safeguarding of employees' rights — Transfer of undertakings — Concept of Transfer — Temporary employment business)

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 269/10
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 13 September 2007 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof, Austria) — Mohamed Jouini, Okay Gönen, Hasan Bajric, Gerald Huber, Manfred Ortner, Sükran Karacatepe, Franz Mühlberger, Nakil Bakii, Hannes Kranzler, Jürgen Mörth, Anton Schneeberger, Dietmar Susteric, Sascha Wörnhör, Aynur Savci, Elena Peter, Egon Schmöger, Mehmet Yaman, Dejan Preradovic, Andreas Mitter, Wolfgang Sorger, Franz Schachenhofer, Herbert Weiss, Harald Kaineder, Ognen Stajkovski, Jovica Vidovic v Princess Personal Service GmbH (PPS)
   (Case C-458/05) (1)
   
   (Social policy - Directive 2001/23/EC - Safeguarding of employees' rights - Transfer of undertakings - Concept of ‘Transfer’ - Temporary employment business)
   (2007/C 269/20)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Oberster Gerichtshof
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Mohamed Jouini, Okay Gönen, Hasan Bajric, Gerald Huber, Manfred Ortner, Sükran Karacatepe, Franz Mühlberger, Nakil Bakii, Hannes Kranzler, Jürgen Mörth, Anton Schneeberger, Dietmar Susteric, Sascha Wörnhör, Aynur Savci, Elena Peter, Egon Schmöger, Mehmet Yaman, Dejan Preradovic, Andreas Mitter, Wolfgang Sorger, Franz Schachenhofer, Herbert Weiss, Harald Kaineder, Ognen Stajkovski, Jovica Vidovic.
   
      Defendant: Princess Personal Service GmbH (PPS)
   Re:
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Oberster Gerichtshof — Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses (OJ 2001 L 82, p. 16) — Scope of application — Concept of ‘part of an undertaking’ — Transfer between two temporary staff agencies of an office worker, a branch manager, a customer adviser and a manager and a third of the temporary staff together with the clients using those staff.
   Operative part of the Judgment
   Article 1(1) of Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses must be interpreted as applying to a situation where part of the administrative personnel and part of the temporary workers are transferred to another temporary employment business in order to carry out the same activities in that business for the same clients and — which is a matter for the referring court to establish — the assets affected by the transfer are sufficient in themselves to allow the services characterising the economic activity in question to be provided without recourse to other significant assets or to other parts of the business.
   
      (1)  OJ C 178, 29.7.2006.