Early retirement: Partial retirement - who is entitled under the quota rule
Many companies still offer partial retirement schemes for their employees. Now a case has landed in front of Germany's highest labor court. It was about a quota.
The Federal Labour Court in Erfurt has ruled that when calculating the proportion of employees with partial retirement contracts, workers who are not union members can be included. The case involved an employee from a food industry company in Rhineland-Palatinate who wanted to take partial retirement despite the company having already reached a 2.5% quota of employees with such contracts.
The court decided that employees outside the personal scope of the collective agreement who have taken partial retirement must be included in the calculation of the quota. The plaintiff's argument that only union members should be considered was rejected.
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