The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Regional Labor Court (Landesarbeitsgericht (LAG) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) ruled on March 25, 2026, (Ref. No. 5 SLa 119/25) that an employer was not liable for a nursing home employee’s covert monitoring of coworkers where the employer used shift separation, a handover log, and mediation, and the coworker had not acted in connection with assigned job duties.
Quick Hits
A claim for damages based on termination-related fault may arise only if the employer’s serious breach of contract would have justified extraordinary termination without notice.
An employer may be liable for misconduct among coworkers only if the employee acted as the employer’s vicarious agent, for example as a supervisor with authority to issue instructions, or if the conduct had a close factual connection to assigned job duties.
Furthermore, the misconduct must have actually been the cause of the employee’s decision to resign.
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