Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the lecturer's pre-2007 employment at HSW Bern was private-law employment or had to be treated as public-law employment for salary transition purposes under FaG/BE Art. 66.
Decisione estratta
The employment relationship was not arbitrarily classified as private-law; the transition provisions of Art. 66 FaG/BE did not apply as a possession-guarantee mechanism to his former status.
Motivazione estratta
The HSW Bern was run by a private-law association, its salary rules were incorporated into contractual arrangements, and the later cantonalization meant staff were newly hired by the canton rather than transferred from a cantonal system. Sinngemässe application of the Fachhochschulgesetz did not transform the prior relationship into public law.