Supreme Court dismissed appeal; no causal link between work injury and lost anniversary bonus after long delay.
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal filed by a former employee against a lower court's award of lost anniversary bonuses. The plaintiff argued that receiving disability pension did not preclude a claim for bonuses earned during his employment, which had ended years prior to his injury. The court held that because over a dozen years passed between the end of employment and the potential claim date, it was impossible to prove with sufficient probability that the plaintiff would have met the statutory requirements for the bonus. Consequently, no causal link existed between the work-related injury and the alleged loss of the bonus, rendering the claim inadmissible.
Legislator headnote
AI generatedArt. 361 § 1 KC; Art. 300 KP: A causal link between a work-related injury and the loss of a future statutory benefit, such as an anniversary bonus, cannot be presumed if a significant time interval separates the termination of employment from the date the right to the benefit could have arisen.