CELEX: 62015CA0454
Language: en
Date: 2016-11-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-454/15: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 24 November 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Hessisches Landesarbeitsgericht — Germany) — Jürgen Webb-Sämann v Christopher Seagon (acting as liquidator in the insolvency of Baumarkt Praktiker DIY GmbH) (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 2008/94/EC — Article 8 — Protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer — Provisions related to social security — Scope — Measures necessary to protect immediate or prospective entitlements of employees under supplementary pension schemes — Obligation to provide for a right to have outstanding pension contributions excluded from the scope of insolvency proceedings — Absence)

30.1.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 30/12
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 24 August 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Hessisches Landesarbeitsgericht — Germany) — Jürgen Webb-Sämann v Christopher Seagon (acting as liquidator in the insolvency of Baumarkt Praktiker DIY GmbH)
   (Case C-454/15) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Social policy - Directive 2008/94/EC - Article 8 - Protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer - Provisions related to social security - Scope - Measures necessary to protect immediate or prospective entitlements of employees under supplementary pension schemes - Obligation to provide for a right to have outstanding pension contributions excluded from the scope of insolvency proceedings - Absence))
   (2017/C 030/11)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Hessisches Landesarbeitsgericht
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Jürgen Webb-Sämann
   
      Defendant: Christopher Seagon (acting as liquidator in the insolvency of Baumarkt Praktiker DIY GmbH)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 8 of Directive 2008/94/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on the protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer must be interpreted as meaning that it does not require that, in the event of employer insolvency, money withheld from a former employee’s salary converted into pension contributions, which that employer should have paid into a pension fund on behalf of that employee, be excluded from the scope of insolvency proceedings.
   
      (1)  OJ C 389, 23.11.2015.