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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11429

13 November 2015
Contents Publication in full By article 25 / 39
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / (ae) social
Employment contract terminations when worker refuses wage cut constitutes redundancy

Brussels, 12/11/2015 (Agence Europe) - When an employer terminates an employment contract if a worker refuses to accept a “significant unilateral change to essential elements of the contract”, which operates to his detriment, such as a cut in wages, is nothing less than a redundancy.

This is effectively what the European Court of Justice decided in this case (C-422/14) on Wednesday, 11 November on the basis of Directive 98/59/EC on the approximation of member states' legislation on...

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