Judgment_paragraph 9 · Giuseppe d'Urso, Adriana Ventadori and others v Ercole Marelli Elettromeccanica Generale SpA and others (C-362/89)

9As this Court held in its judgment in Joined Cases 144/87 and 145/87 Harry Berg and Another v Ivo Marten Besselsen [1988] ECR 2559, paragraphs 12 and 13, the Directive is intended to safeguard the rights of workers in the event of a change of employer by making it possible for them to continue to work for the new employer on the same conditions as those agreed with the transferor. The rules applicable in the event of a transfer of an undertaking or a business to another employer are thus intended to safeguard, in the interests of the employees, the existing employment relationships which form part of the economic entity transferred.