Business transfer: validity of lower court judgment lacking statement of facts and reasoning

The Federal Labor Court (BAG) rejected the employer's appeal, thereby upholding the lower court's ruling in favor of the employee. The dispute concerned a business transfer and the employer's subsequent objection to the employee's claim, specifically arising from a first-instance judgment that lacked a statement of facts and reasoning. The decisive legal basis was the requirement that a judgment must include a detailed statement of facts and reasons to be formally valid; the employer's argument that the lower court's formal defect justified a reversal on the merits was deemed insufficient to overturn the substantive result at this procedural stage.