Inadmissibility of Revision Appeal Due to Ineffective Fax Submission of Grounds and Rejection of Reinstatement

The Federal Labour Court dismissed the defendant’s application for reinstatement and rejected the revision appeal as inadmissible, thereby upholding the lower court’s judgment and ordering the defendant to bear the costs of the appeal proceedings. The dispute concerned a deadline default regarding the late submission of the revision grounds via fax after an earlier judgment by the Hessian Regional Labour Court. The decisive legal basis for the outcome was the doctrine of reinstatement to the previous status (Wiedereinsetzung in den vorigen Stand) and procedural rules governing the timely filing of revision pleadings, specifically determining that the defective transmission via fax failed to meet the requirements for a valid deadline-compliant filing.