New case law – Collective Agreement Interpretation

Collective Agreement Interpretation. In a collective agreement—an appendix on employment protection to the construction agreement—parts have been included that are merely informational about the content of the employment protection law’s provisions, and parts on which the parties have reached a specific agreement, thus constituting the content of the collective agreement. The Labor Court found that a provision regarding the so-called two-exemption rule in the order of priority for termination due to redundancy, which mainly corresponds to what followed from Section 22, second paragraph of the Employment Protection Act in its wording before June 30, 2022, constitutes the content of the collective agreement.

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