Rechtsstreit: VW muss Ex-Manager rund 300.000 Euro nachzahlen

In Braunschweig, Volkswagen owes a former manager around 300,000 euros in compensation for approximately one year's salary. The decision was made by the Braunschweig Labour Court. The company terminated the employee, believing he had passed on internal information to the Landeskriminalamt (LKA), among other things. The legal dispute between Volkswagen and a total of two managers has been going through the Labour Courts at all levels.

In September, the Labour Court awarded the second manager a compensation of around 200,000 euros. In both cases, Volkswagen is supposed to pay the difference between immediate and proper termination. Previously, the court had decided that the extraordinary termination was not timely, but the proper separation was effective. Volkswagen's claim for about 380,000 euros in legal costs was also rejected by the court in this case.

Volkswagen does not receive any information from the second decision about what the two managers reported. The reason for the termination, according to Volkswagen, was the accusation of improperly providing internal revision reports on the Crafter and Grand California models to the media and public authorities. From the company's perspective, this was unacceptable and constituted a serious breach of duty.