Key legal question
Whether the employee's position was a 'suppressed post' under the merger social plan Z and entitled her to early retirement
Extracted holding
Yes. The restructuring substantially changed the job, responsibilities, hierarchy, support staff, and local management structure, so the former post no longer existed in the contractual sense.
Extracted reasoning
A post is suppressed when, viewed under the parties' contractual expectations, the work position is so transformed that it no longer corresponds to what was agreed; substantial changes in content, place, employer structure, and responsibility may amount to a new post.