In het faillissement geldt een verlicht ontslagregime. Daarmee zijn faillissementsprocedures aantrekkelijk voor ondernemers om hun personeelsbestand te saneren. De vraag is echter of de faillissementsaangifte hiervoor mag worden gebruikt. In dit artikel zal worden ingegaan op het inzetten van het faillissementsrecht om de arbeidsrechtelijke bescherming van werknemers te omzeilen. Wanneer is sprake van misbruik van de eigen faillissementsaangifte?
Recente zaak: faillissement van een schoenenhandel
Recent developments
Taking decisions to liquidate companies has become a matter of routine when optimising corporate structures to improve cost efficiency. Increasingly, we see that such decisions have been taken either prematurely or without taking all of the relevant factors into account.
In a recent case before the Court of Appeal in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the question was raised whether a liquidator should get access to data stored in a cloud, when the company, having a contractual relationship with the cloud provider, has gone into bankruptcy.
In the October 2012 Newsflash, we informed you about the notion of “successive terms of employment” and the consequences associated herewith. We discussed the Dutch Supreme Court’s recent Van Tuinen decision, in which the Court limited the doctrine of successive terms of employment after insolvency by following the case law pertaining to the probationary period.
In recent years Dutch banks have established a practice of creating undisclosed rights of pledge (stil pandrecht) on all current and future receivables of their borrowers in an easy way and without the borrower's involvement. In the Supreme Court's ruling of 3 February 2012 (HR 3 February 2012, LJN BT6947), this practice was unsuccessfully put to the test by a bankruptcy trustee, who contested the alleged right of pledge of ING Bank on receivables of its bankrupt client.
(Europa West-Indië Lijnen B.V./Container Leasing International LLC)
A recent judgment of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal marks the latest trend in Dutch law to strengthen the position of the debtor in the context of pre-judgment attachments. The Court of Appeal gave effect to the full disclosure principle that stipulates that the creditor, in its request for leave to make pre-judgment attachments, should properly inform the court of the merits of its claim and the dispute with the debtor.
Introduction