Acknowledgment judgment in employment dispute over €40 wage claim

BAG 10 AZR 865/09Bag / Division 10Jul 14, 2010Granted

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Omnilex summary

The Federal Labour Court issued an acknowledgment judgment after the defendant acknowledged the plaintiff’s claim. It set aside the Regional Labour Court’s judgment, amended the Labour Court Koblenz’s judgment, and ordered the defendant to pay €40.00 gross plus interest at five percentage points above the base rate from 1 August 2008. The defendant was ordered to bear the costs. The judgment was rendered without a statement of facts or reasons pursuant to § 313b(1) sentence 1 ZPO.

Omnilex headnote

§ 313b Abs. 1 Satz 1 ZPO; acknowledgment judgment and omission of findings of fact and reasons: Where the defendant acknowledges the claim, the court may decide by acknowledgment judgment without a statement of facts or reasons. The acknowledged claim is to be granted in accordance with the acknowledgment; prior judgments are to be set aside and the matter reformulated in the operative part. The acknowledgment judgment contains the full dispositive relief, including ancillary interest and costs, but no substantive reasoning on the merits.

Full text

BAG — 10 AZR 865/09, Anerkenntnisurteil

Entscheidungsdatum: 2010-07-14

Aktenzeichen: 10 AZR 865/09

Dokumenttyp: Anerkenntnisurteil

Vorinstanz: vorgehend ArbG Koblenz, 17. Juni 2009, Az: 6 Ca 304/09, Urteilvorgehend Landesarbeitsgericht Rheinland-Pfalz, 13. November 2009, Az: 6 Sa 475/09, Urteil

Spruchkörper: 10. Senat

Titelzeile

Anerkenntnisurteil - Urteil ohne Tatbestand und Entscheidungsgründe

Tenor

  1. Auf die Revision des Klägers wird das Urteil des Landesarbeitsgerichts Rheinland-Pfalz vom 13. November 2009 - 6 Sa 475/09 - aufgehoben.

  2. Auf die Berufung des Klägers wird das Urteil des Arbeitsgerichts Koblenz vom 17. Juni 2009 - 6 Ca 304/09 - abgeändert und wie folgt neu gefasst:

Die Beklagte wird verurteilt, an den Kläger 40,00 Euro brutto nebst Zinsen in Höhe von fünf Prozentpunkten über dem Basiszinssatz seit dem 1. August 2008 zu zahlen.

  1. Die Beklagte hat die Kosten des Rechtsstreits zu tragen.

Sonstige Leitsätze

1

Von der Darstellung des Tatbestands und der Entscheidungsgründe wird abgesehen (§ 313b Abs. 1 Satz 1 ZPO). Die Beklagte hat den Klageanspruch anerkannt.

MikoschMarquardtW. Reinfelder
GroßmannZüfle

Keywords

acknowledgment judgmentwage claiminterestcostsrevisionemployment dispute

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Key legal question

Whether the lower judgments had to be set aside after the defendant acknowledged the claim on revision.

Extracted holding

Yes. The Federal Labour Court set aside the appellate judgment and amended the first-instance judgment accordingly.

Extracted reasoning

Because the defendant acknowledged the claim, the court issued an acknowledgment judgment without stating findings of fact or reasons under § 313b(1) sentence 1 ZPO.

Key legal question

Whether the plaintiff was entitled to €40.00 gross plus interest from 1 August 2008.

Extracted holding

Yes. The defendant was ordered to pay €40.00 gross with interest at five percentage points above the base rate from 1 August 2008.

Extracted reasoning

The acknowledgment of the claim made the requested relief due.

Key legal question

Allocation of costs.

Extracted holding

The defendant had to bear the costs of the proceedings.

Extracted reasoning

The dispositive follows the acknowledgment and the resulting success of the plaintiff.

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