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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9585
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice

Employers can be taken to court by a member state if they are linked to another employer on same territory

Brussels, 22/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - If an employee takes legal action against several employers based in different member states, he can ask all defendants to be judged at the same court if there is a relevant link between them. This is the opinion of Advocate General Poiares Maduo in Case C-462/06, submitted on 17 January.

The French national, Jean-Pierre Rouard, took his employers to the French courts for not respecting their own procedures when he was made redundant in 2001. The two...

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