Supreme Court dismisses appeal; retroactive application of fixed-term contract conversion rule to pre-act contracts is inadmissible.

The Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal regarding the retroactive application of Article 25(1) of the Labor Code. The plaintiff argued that a sequence of three fixed-term contracts should automatically convert to an indefinite-term contract upon the new law's entry into force. The Court held that the statutory provision does not apply to contracts finalized before the law's effective date, even if the final contract's term extended past that date. Consequently, the court ruled that the principle of non-retroactivity prevails unless explicitly stated by the statute or legislative intent.