Applicability of collective agreement wage exclusion periods to employer loan repayment claims

The Federal Labour Court rejected the plaintiff's revision, affirming the lower court's judgment and ordering the plaintiff to bear the litigation costs of the appellate instance. The dispute concerned a claim for the repayment of an employer-provided loan, challenging the validity of a collective agreement provision that established a one-month exclusion period for wage claims to bar such loan claims. The court determined that the contractual loan relationship was not subject to the collective agreement's exclusion rules, which apply only to wage claims, thereby denying the plaintiff's argument that the loan claim was still recoverable.