Supreme Court Ruling Sets Precedent on Outsourcing and Employee Classification

Kremalis Law Firm successfully defended a major highway construction and maintenance concessionaire in a high-stakes labor dispute regarding employee misclassification. The case involved a freelancer, engaged by a third-party subcontractor, who sought judicial recognition as an employee of our client, demanding substantial severance pay and back wages. The legal battle culminated at the Supreme Court, which delivered an irrevocable victory for our client. The Supreme Court fully dismissed the claimant’s appeals and upheld the favorable Court of Appeal decision. Fully adopting our firm’s strategic legal arguments, the Court established a crucial precedent: corporate outsourcing executed via competitive public tenders does not make the subcontractors’ personnel or external partners employees of the contracting authority.