Key legal question
Whether the employment relationship between the plaintiff and defendant 1 was terminated by the dismissal of 2009-12-24.
Extracted holding
The dismissal did not terminate the employment relationship.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Labour Court set aside the appellate judgment insofar as it had rejected the plaintiff's appeal against defendant 1 and, on appeal, amended the first-instance judgment to grant the declaratory claim against defendant 1.