48As a preliminary point, it must be borne in mind that, as the Court has repeatedly held, Directive 2001/23 is intended to safeguard the rights of employees in the event of a change of employer by allowing them to continue to work for the new employer in the same conditions as those agreed with the transferor (judgment of 27 November 2008, Juuri, C‑396/07, EU:C:2008:656, paragraph 28 and the case-law cited). The purpose of the directive is to ensure, as far as possible, that the contract of employment or employment relationship continues unchanged with the transferee, in order to prevent the workers concerned from being placed in a less favourable position solely as a result of the transfer (judgments of 17 December 1987, Ny Mølle Kro, 287/86, EU:C:1987:573, paragraph 25, and of 26 May 2005, Celtec, C‑478/03, EU:C:2005:321, paragraph 26).
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