Question juridique clé
Whether Art. 19 PILA required taking into account the Panamanian mandatory severance rule for seafarers.
Solution extraite
The foreign rule could not be taken into account under Art. 19 PILA because, even if a close connection were assumed, the employee's interest in the foreign severance payment was not sufficiently legitimate and manifestly preponderant under Swiss legal values.
Motifs extraits
The Panamanian payment was characterized as a purely patrimonial departure payment, not a social-security substitute or a protection rule comparable to Swiss mandatory labor protections. Its purpose did not fit the fundamental Swiss conception of worker protection.