DCC 58/2003

This case involved a request by an employee that their employer return their passport. The key issue was whether court fees should have been paid in this case or the case rejected.

Background

An employee filed a case against a company and requested the court order the company to give up his passport. The employee stated the company had received the passport in order to get a working permit for him.

The court ruled that the company should return the employee's passport.

The company appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court rejected the appeal and upheld the appealed ruling.

Decision

The company appealed the ruling before the court of cassation and stated in its grounds of appeal that the ruling had erred in the application of law because as this case did not fall under the mandate of Article 6 of Federal Law No. 8/1980, the fees of the case should have been paid or it should have been rejected.