BAG: Costs of Revision proceedings in civil labor litigation

The BAG dismissed the employee's appeal, upholding the Landesarbeitsgericht Düsseldorf's judgment and ordering the employee to bear the costs of the revision proceedings. The dispute concerned a labor law matter where the employee challenged the lower court's decision, likely regarding employment conditions or contractual obligations, as evidenced by the procedural progression from a local labor court to the regional and finally the federal level. The decisive legal basis was the application of German labor law principles governing the substantive rights at issue, leading the BAG to conclude that the lower court's assessment was legally correct and no further revision was warranted.