Waiver of statement of facts and grounds under § 313a ZPO in labor litigation

The Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht) dismissed the defendant’s revision, upholding the appellate court’s decision and ordering the defendant to bear the litigation costs. The parties waived the statement of facts and grounds for judgment pursuant to § 313a of the German Code of Civil Procedure, which limits the disclosure of specific material facts in the public record. The case involved a labor law dispute where the plaintiff sought a declaratory judgment or related relief, which was granted at the instance level and affirmed on appeal. The decisive legal basis for the procedural outcome was the standard of review in the German labor courts system, which found no error in the Landesarbeitsgericht Berlin-Brandenburg’s application of labor law principles, thereby leaving the lower court’s operative order in full force.