LAG Hamm Urteil vom 01.02.2019 - 16 Sa 694/18, Greek Teacher v Greece, Judgment, 16 Sa 694/18, ILDC 3156 (DE 2019), NZA-RR 2019, 328, 1st February 2019, Germany; Hesse; Regional Labour Court [LAG]

Whether domestic courts were precluded from ruling on the merits of a case regarding a core area of sovereign action of a state because it would violate the principle of sovereign immunity of states.

Whether a domestic law that imposed reductions in the salary of a school teacher working abroad constituted a sovereign act of state and therefore, foreign courts were barred from issuing a ruling due to the domestic state’s invocation of sovereign immunity of states.