La competencia del orden social para declarar una sucesión de empresas en caso de adquisición de unidad productiva en concurso no parece albergar duda alguna para la Sala de lo Social del Tribunal Supremo. A tal fin, se imponen la aplicación de la norma laboral, las consecuencias derivadas sobre la responsabilidad solidaria de empresa adquirente y transmitente en toda su extensión —para contratos vigentes y deudas derivadas de contratos ya extinguidos— y la inviabilidad, en tal caso, de la exoneración contenida en el plan de liquidación.

Iniciado un despido colectivo y alcanzado un acuerdo entre los representantes de los trabajadores y el empresario en el periodo de consultas, se plantea si la impugnación individual de cada despido puede cuestionar la concurrencia de las causas que lo motivan. El diferente tratamiento normativo —laboral, concursal, procesal— y la distinta dicción sobre esta materia en procesos de naturaleza colectiva —modificación sustancial, movilidad, suspensión contractual— obligan a precisar una solución, sustantiva y procesalmente determinante.

Our May 23, June 28, July 13, August 3 and

In hindsight, it seems inevitable that constitutional and other jurisdictional problems would arise when Congress, in enacting the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, created impressive new powers and responsibilities for the bankruptcy courts (along with a considerable degree of independence) but denied them the status of Article III courts under the Constitution (by denying its judges lifetime tenure, as Article III requires). And it didn’t take long for the problems to arise.

In accordance with EU legislation, Member States have the power to limit the obligation of public guarantee institutions to pay employees’ claims in the event of their employer’s insolvency. The Court of Justice found to be compliant a national provision (Bulgarian law) that confines the protection given by said guarantee institutions to those employment relationships that have not ended within the three months prior to the opening of insolvency proceedings.

Our May 23, June 28, July 13 and August 3 posts discuss

Todos los supuestos de extinción en que ésta es adoptada por voluntad del trabajador, pero derivada de una decisión unilateral de la empresa, han de tener el mismo tratamiento por parte de los Estados miembros. Así lo señala el Tribunal de de Justicia en un reciente pronunciamiento en el que resuelve una cuestión cuya trascendencia práctica desborda el supuesto planteado específicamente.

Our July 13 post stated that the deadline for the respondent in Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC, 879 F.3d 389 (1st Cir. 2018),petition for cert. filed, No. 17-1657 (June 11, 2018), to submit a reply to the petition for certiorari seeking reversal of the First Circuit’s 2-1 decision had been extended to August 8.

In the era that preceded the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 and its enactment of the Bankruptcy Code, bankruptcy estates often lost the value of leases and other contracts that could have been realized for creditors by use or sale as a result of termination provisions (either discretionary or ipso facto), limitations or outright prohibitions on assignment, and counterparty self-help.[1] The Code sou

Our June 28 post discussed the petition for certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of the First Circuit’s January 12 decision in Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC.[i] We noted that the respondent’s response to the petition was due on July 12.