CELEX: 62009CN0242
Language: en
Date: 2009-07-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-242/09: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Gerechtshof te Amsterdam (Netherlands) lodged on 3 July 2009 — Albron Catering BV v FNV Bondgenoten and John Roest

12.9.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 220/21
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Gerechtshof te Amsterdam (Netherlands) lodged on 3 July 2009 — Albron Catering BV v FNV Bondgenoten and John Roest
   (Case C-242/09)
   2009/C 220/41
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Gerechtshof te Amsterdam
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Albron Catering BV
   
      Defendants: FNV Bondgenoten, John Roest
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Should Directive 2001/23/EC (1) be interpreted as meaning that there is a transfer of rights and obligations to the transferee referred to in the first sentence of Article 3(1) only if the transferor of the undertaking to be transferred is also the formal employer of the employees concerned, or does the protection of employees envisaged by the Directive imply that, upon transfer of an undertaking from an operating company belonging to a group, the rights and obligations pertaining to the employees working for that undertaking are transferred to the transferee if all the personnel working in the group are in the employ of a personnel company (which also belongs to that group) which functions as the central employer?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               What would be the answer to the second part of the first question if the employees referred to there who work for an undertaking belonging to a group are in the employ of another company which also belongs to that group, which is not a personnel company as described in the first question?
            
         
      (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).