Reassignment and Place of Deployment

In regard to changes in base locations (Stationierungsorten), the Ninth Senate of the German Federal Labor Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht) has held that the closure of a base alone does not justify the reassignment (Versetzung) of flight personnel stationed there, nor does it constitute valid grounds for a corresponding notice of change (Änderungskündigung).

Flight personnel are not restricted to being deployed solely from their designated base locations.

Legally speaking, the base location (Stationierungsort) and the place of deployment (Einsatzort) are not identical under employment law. Therefore, the closure of a base does not automatically result in a change of the place of deployment.

(Judgment of 21 July 2009, 9 AZR 404/08, among others)