Protection of employees: insolvency of employer, transnational situations (repeal. Directive 80/987/EEC). Codification

PURPOSE: to codify legislation concerning the protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer.

PROPOSED ACT: Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council.

CONTENT: the purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of Council Directive 80/987/EEC of 20 October 1980 on the protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer. The new Directive will supersede the various acts incorporated in it; this proposal fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.