Question juridique clé
Whether the salary claim for the release period qualified for first-class employee privilege under SchKG during the composition moratorium.
Solution extraite
No. Because the claimant had held a statutory corporate organ position up to his release, the claim did not benefit from employee privilege.
Motifs extraits
Under settled case law, claims of statutory organs are excluded from first-class privilege because the required subordination/employee relationship is lacking. For the release period, the decisive question is whether the underlying pre-release claim would have been privileged; here it would not have been, given the claimant’s board-chairman status.