Article 21 – Suing an Employer
Section: Chapter II - Jurisdiction - Section 5 Employment
Category: Employment
Content
1. An employer domiciled in a Member State may be sued:
(a) in the courts of the Member State in which he is domiciled; or
(b) in another Member State:
(i) in the courts for the place where or from where the employee habitually carries out his work or in the courts for the last place where he did so; or
(ii) if the employee does not or did not habitually carry out his work in any one country, in the courts for the place where the business which engaged the employee is or was situated.
2. An employer not domiciled in a Member State may be sued in a court of a Member State in accordance with point (b) of paragraph 1.
Related Topics
- Employee Plaintiff
- Place of Work
- Habitual Work
Related Cases
- UPC CoA 413/2025 – Knaus Tabbert AG v Yellow Sphere Innovations GmbH and Erwin Härtwich
- UPC CoA 549/2024 – Belkin v Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- UPC CFI 358/2023 – HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P. v LAMA FRANCE
- UPC CFI 390/2023 – Koninklijke Philips N.V. v Belkin GmbH, Belkin International, Inc., Belkin Limited et al.