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Extensive expertise
We have extensive expertise in labour and social law: from drafting and reviewing employment contracts to social security issues.
Customised solutions
With your specific requirements in mind, we provide you with comprehensive and customised advice. Whether you are a board member, management or HR manager - we support you in your day-to-day business or in complex reorganisation measures.
Our services in labour and social law
Individual labour law
Our services for companies and executives cover all areas of individual labour law, including
- Employment contracts, settlement and cancellation agreements
- Dismissals, change notices, warnings
- Legal issues in connection with holidays, working hours, parental leave
- Introduction of home office, mobile working, workation
- Data protection in the employment relationship
- Advice on the Whistleblower Protection Act, Supply Chain Due Diligence Act
- Temporary employment/work contracts
- Labour law framework conditions for dealing with internal company criminal offences
- Nationwide legal representation before labour courts, state labour courts, the Federal Labour Court and civil and social courts
Collective labour law
Our services cover all areas of collective labour law, including
- Works council/staff council participation
- Examination and drafting of works and service agreements
- (In-house) collective labour agreement negotiations
- Representation in conciliation committee proceedings, resolution proceedings
- Nationwide legal representation before labour courts, state labour courts and the Federal Labour Court
Managing directors, board members, executives
- Drafting of employment contracts, management contracts, contracts with co-working partners, executive employees
- Drafting of settlement and cancellation agreements
- Drafting of pension schemes, remuneration systems
- Managing director liability
- Legal representation before the labour courts of all instances and the regional and higher regional courts
Restructuring
- Assistance in the context of national and international corporate transactions
- Advising employers on the implementation of transfers of undertakings, operational changes, reconciliation of interests and social compensation plans
- Organisation and implementation of personnel adjustment measures, outsourcing, employment and qualification companies (BQG)
- Carrying out legal due diligence audits
Company pension scheme
- Pension concepts
- Contract design
- Executive and supervisory board pensions
- Risk analysis (compliance consulting)
- Restructuring, outsourcing of existing pension schemes
- Harmonisation of pension concepts following corporate transactions
- Pension adjustment
International employee deployment
- Assignments and transfers abroad (expat management)
- Employee secondments to Germany (impat management)
- Tax and social security law
- Migration law
Labour law of the public sector and churches, hospital labour law
- Collective agreements of the public sector
- Church collective agreements
- Labour contract guidelines of Caritas and Diakonie
- Company agreements, service agreements, involvement of employee representatives
- Specific advice in the area of labour law in hospitals, nursing and retirement homes and facilities for the disabled
Social security law
- Contracts with freelancers, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Status clarification for managing directors and shareholders
- Status proceedings, conducting objection and legal proceedings
- Artists' social insurance
- Social security law for international employee assignments
In-house training and presentations
Conducting internal, external or digital training courses on labour law topics