CELEX: 62013CN0328
Language: en
Date: 2013-06-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-328/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 17 June 2013 — Österreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund v Wirtschaftskammer Österreich — Fachverband der Autobus-, Luftfahrt- und Schifffahrtsunternehmungen

21.9.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 274/2
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 17 June 2013 — Österreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund v Wirtschaftskammer Österreich — Fachverband der Autobus-, Luftfahrt- und Schifffahrtsunternehmungen
   (Case C-328/13)
   2013/C 274/03
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Oberster Gerichtshof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Österreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund
   
      Defendant: Wirtschaftskammer Österreich — Fachverband der Autobus-, Luftfahrt- und Schifffahrtsunternehmungen
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               (a)
            
            
               Is the wording of Article 3(3) of Directive 2001/23/EC, (1) according to which the ‘terms and conditions’ agreed in any collective agreement and applicable to the transferor must continue to be observed ‘on the same terms’ until the ‘date of termination or expiry of the collective agreement’, to be interpreted as also covering terms and conditions laid down by a collective agreement which have continuing effect indefinitely under national law, despite the termination of the collective agreement, until another collective agreement takes effect or the employees concerned have concluded new individual agreements?
            
         
               (b)
            
            
               Is Article 3(3) of Directive 2001/23/EC to be interpreted to the effect that ‘application of another collective agreement’ of the transferee is to be understood as including the continuing effect of the likewise terminated collective agreement of the transferee in the abovementioned sense?
            
         
      (1)  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.