Municipal Employee Wage Claim Statute of Limitations Dispute

An individual, who had been hired to maintain a municipal park, sued the municipality for payment of wages earned over a specific period, but the municipality invoked the statute of limitations, arguing that the claim was time-barred after five years. The Court of Cassation quashed the lower court's decision, reasoning that claims for wages by employees, including those in public service, are subject to a shorter, five-year prescriptive period under the Civil Code, and thus the municipality's defense based on this specific limitation was correctly applied.