Case number and/or case name
ArbG Cottbus, 17.10.2013 – 3 Ca 738/13
Details of the court
Germany, First Instance
Articles referred to by the court
Brussels I
Article 19
Paragraph 2
SubParagraph a
Date of the judgement
16 October 2013
CJEU's case law cited by the court
Summary
The parties argued about payment claims resulting from a change in the plaintiff’s employment contract. He claims that he is supposed to get payments for non-mandatory work. The plaintiff is employed as a flight attendant. The defendant is his employer.
The court had to examine the international jurisdiction of German courts under Art. 19 no 2 (a) Brussels I. It held that the habitual workplace of a flight attendant was the place of the local airport where the employee had his residence and where he started his work from if this airport was also the place where the preparation and the follow-up of the flights were carried out.