Judgment_paragraph 43 · Confédération générale du travail (CGT) and Others v Premier ministre and Ministre de l'Emploi, de la Cohésion sociale et du Logement (C-385/05)

43In order to answer the question reformulated in that way, it should first be observed that Directive 98/59 is designed to ensure comparable protection for workers' rights in the different Member States and to harmonise the costs which such protective rules entail for Community undertakings (see, by analogy, Case C-383/92 Commission v United Kingdom [1994] ECR I-2479, paragraph 16).