Employment law dispute on the allocation of litigation costs between plaintiff and defendant

The Federal Labor Court (BAG) rejected the revisions filed by both the plaintiff and the defendant, thereby upholding the judgment of the Hesse Regional Labor Court and dismissing the appeals; consequently, the plaintiff bears 82% and the defendant 18% of the litigation costs. The dispute concerned a civil labor law matter where the plaintiff sought a specific claim against the defendant, which had been litigated through two prior instances. The final decision was grounded in the assessment that the lower court's application of the relevant labor law norms and procedural doctrines was correct, resulting in no substantive change to the outcome established by the Regional Labor Court.