Our newsletters on current and interesting labor law topics are published at irregular intervals.
Archive Newsletter
Newsletter 03/2024
The Bureaucracy Reduction Act – Done Right This Time?
Newsletter 02/2024
Sick Notices are not Unassailable – A Perennial Issue in Flux
Newsletter 01/2024
Ministerial Draft Bill to the Reduction of Bureaucracy Act – the intentions are good …
Newsletter 08/2023
Once More: Reduced protection against Mass Layoffs? – The Suspense Continues!
Newsletter 07/2023
One-person GmbH – Federal Social Court on Evasion Models in the Case of False Self-employment
Newsletter 06/2023
Reduced Protection against Mass Layoffs? – ECJ on Consequences of Errors in the Mass Layoff Process
Newsletter 05/2023
Equal Pay – Let’s Hear It for the Freedom of Contract
Newsletter 04/2023
From Me Too to Dieselgate – No Data Protection is Protection of a Misdeed!
Newsletter 03/2023
Compensation for Works Council Members as Embezzlement? Six Months after BGH
Newsletter 02/2023
The Working Time Draft Bill – Nine to five for all?
Newsletter 01/2023
Quo Vadis, Severance Pay Boom? A Sea Change in the Making?
Newsletter 08/2022
Unlimited Vacation! – Expiration and Prescription of Claims to Vacation Only if Employees are Properly Informed
Newsletter 07/2022
Whistleblower Protection on the Home Stretch
Newsletter 06/2022
The Big Bang for Recording Working Time – The Grounds of the Decision
Newsletter 05/2022
Matrix, The Next Act – The Federal Labor Court Rules on the Right to Issue Functional Instructions
Newsletter 04/2022
The Clock is Ticking – The Federal Labor Court and the Duty to Record Working Time
Newsletter 03/2022
Internal Investigations and Two-week Notice Period – Noteworthy Comments by the Federal Labor Court regarding a „Never-ending“ Dilemma
Newsletter 02/2022
A paper tiger is getting teeth! – The new Documentation Act is coming
Newsletter 01/2022
There’s no place like home? – The “home office duty” is ending soon
Newsletter 08/2021
Testing the Easy Way? – Be Wary of “Online Citizen Tests“ for “3G“ at Work!
Newsletter 07/2021
The Matrix in Works Council Elections – BAG Ruling on the Treatment of Matrix Employees
Newsletter 06/2021
Corona Update – Expansion and Extension of the Corona Occupational Health and Safety Regulation
Newsletter 05/2021
Modern Times – The Works Council Modernization Act is coming
Newsletter 04/2021
Short-time Work Update – Liability risks if short-time work is not validly introduced by a works agreement
Newsletter 03/2021
Bad advice can be expensive – Employer liability for giving incorrect advice to employees
Newsletter 02/2021
Copy & Waste? – Federal Labor Court decides on judicial enforcement of the right to a copy of data under Art. 15 GDPR
Newsletter 01/2021
Short-time Work vs. Vacation: “0:0”? – Accruing Claims to Vacation While on Short-time Work
Newsletter 05/2020
Short-time Work Update – Extension of Supportive Legislation for Short-Time Work
Newsletter 04/2020
The Coronavirus Liability Trap – An Overview of Employer Liability Risks if Employees Become Infected at Work
Newsletter 03/2020
Short-time Work Update – “System-relevant” Side Jobs While on Short Work
Newsletter 02/2020
Corona Reporting and Data Protection – DSK Guidelines and Prevention Duties to Protect Employee Health
Newsletter 01/2020
Employment and Corona – Short-Time Work et al. – An Overview
Newsletter 06/2019
The new GDPR catalogue of fines – It’s getting serious!
Newsletter 05/2019
Timekeeping according to the ECJ – Trust, but Verify
Newsletter 04/2019
Business and Trade Secrets 4.0 – The Business and Trade Secrets Act (GeschGehG) and the “Digital Safe” – Businesses Need to Act Now!
Newsletter 03/2019
Registration Duties within Europe – the A1-Certificate of Coverage for Secondments and Business Trips
Newsletter 02/2019
Top Secret? Initial Contours of the Right of Access under Art. 15 GDPR
Newsletter 01/2019
No fun in the sun! – The duty of employers in vacation law to take the initiative and to instruct employees
Newsletter 02/2018
Dirty Deals? – Separation Agreements with Works Council Members
Newsletter 01/18
Habemus Coalitionem? – The Coalition Agreement and Employment Law
Newsletter 06/17
The Federal Labor Court on Jurisdiction of the Conciliation Board in Occupational Health and Safety Matters
Newsletter 04/17
Contractor Compliance Update – BAG and BSG Rulings on Free Lancers as Regular Employees and on Illegal Employee Leasing
Newsletter 03/17
Update on the Reform of the Temporary Employment Act 2017: The Federal Employment Agency has published material instructions!
Newsletter 01/17
Employee Leasing and Work Contracts in 2017 – The Federal Labor Court Shows Practitioners “How it is done”!
Newsletter 06/16
In the Spotlight: External Personnel in the Era of the New Temporary Employment
Newsletter 05/16
Reform of the Workplaces Ordinance
Newsletter 04/16
Exclusionary Periods in Standard Contract Clauses – a Legal Nursing Case
Newsletter 02/16
The Parachute is (still) Holding – Latent Employee Leasing with “Reserved Permission”
Newsletter 01/16
Exclusion Clauses in Light of the New Section 309 No. 13 German Civil Code
Newsletter 07/15
The new EU General Data Protection Regulation and its impact on the protection of employee data
Newsletter 06/15
The merely supposedly safe harbor – employment law consequences of the latest ECJ ruling on “Safe Harbor”
Newsletter 05/15
Again: Federal Labor Court Tightens Rules for Performance-Related Payments
Newsletter 04/15
Repayment Excluded? New Judgments on Employer Loans in the Case of Termination
Newsletter 03/15
Vacation Escapes? How case law is redefining the claim to vacation time
Newsletter 02/15
Light in the “Compliance Jungle”? The BAG Heightens the Contours of the Lawfulness of Internal Investigations
Newsletter 01/15
Occupational Safety and Co-determination – To be Sure
Newsletter 05/14
Recent Legal Developments concerning Employer Letters of Reference
Newsletter 04/14
The new Minimum Wage Act – More than meets the eye!
Newsletter 03/14
Federal Labor Court Provides “Timeline” for Hearings Preceding Termination for Suspected Wrongdoing
Newsletter 02/14
Developments in Vacation Law – ECJ and BAG with further “misappropriations” of vacation claims
Newsletter 01/14
When the end does not justify the means – Inadmissibility of evidence procured through unreasonable investigative methods
Newsletter 06/13
“Temporary” leased employees – still no clarifying decision by the Federal Labor Court
Newsletter 05/13
Composite Special Payments – The End of Effective Date Clauses?
Newsletter 04/13
A New Variation on an Old Theme – Paid Annual Leave During Leave of Absence after Termination
Newsletter 03/13
Practical Ramifications of German Case Law on Termination for Suspected Wrongdoing
Newsletter 02/13
Who Am I – and, If so, How Many? Temporary Employees and Thresholds of Employment Law
Newsletter 01/13
Limitations on Social Plan Benefits for Employees Close to Retirement – Landmark Decision of the European Court of Justice
Newsletter 05/12
When Does a Reprimand “Expire”? A Federal Labor Court Ruling on the Shelf-Life of a Reprimand in the Personnel File
Newsletter 04/12
Clarity, Finally? Limitations on the Carry-Over of Paid Annual Leave in the Event of Illness – the Federal Labor Court Follows the European Court of Justice
Newsletter 03/12
Consecutive Fixed-Terms of Employment and Abuse of Law – News on Fixed-Term Employment Contracts
Newsletter 02/12
The Employee’s “Right to Lie”? – The Federal Labor Court on Employer Questions about Existing Severe Disabilities
Newsletter 01/12
News about Bonuses and the Interaction of Employment Contracts and Collective Sources of Law
Newsletter 08/11
Limitation of the Carry-Over of Annual Leave in the Event of Illness – Clarifying decision from the ECJ!
Newsletter 07/11
Temporary Employees May Tip the Scales -Thresholds of Labor and Employment Law
Newsletter 06/11
Update on Limitations of Claims for Minimum Paid Annual Leave Brought by Employees Suffering from Long-Term Illnesses
Newsletter 05/11
(No) Final Whistle for Whistleblowers!? – The ECHR on Freedom of Speech in the Workplace
Newsletter 04/11
Limitation of Carry-Over of Paid Annual Leave in the Event of Illness? Clarifying Decision of the ECJ in Sight
Newsletter 03/11
Never Say “Never Again” – Judgment of the Federal Labor Court on the Possibility of a Repeated Limitation of Contracts for no Material Reason
Newsletter 02/11
(Equal) Pay Day for Temporary Employees? – Order of the Federal Labor Court on the Collective Bargaining Capacity of the CGZP
Newsletter 01/11
“Are Vacation Benefits that Increase with Age Unlawful Discrimination?” – Recent Case Law by the Regional Labor Court of Appeal Düsseldorf
Newsletter 04/10
Overtime all-inclusive? – Decisions by the Federal Labor Court on Blanket Compensation for Overtime
Newsletter 03/10
New EU Directives for the Regulation of Bonus Payments in the Banking Industry
Newsletter 02/10
Plurality in Unity – Change in the Case Law of the Federal Labour Court regarding the Principle of One Shop, One Collective Bargaining Agreement
Newsletter 01/10
Anti-Terror Lists of the EC: Data Protection and Co-Determination Problems
Newsletter 04/09
Risks of “Split Pension Formulas” – New Case Law of the Federal Labor Court
Newsletter 03/09
The New § 32 Federal Data Protection Act – More Than Just Clarification of Existing Law?
Newsletter 02/09
A Trap for Employers: The Post-Contractual Effect of Voluntary Works Agreements
Newsletter 01/09
European Work Hour Directive: Consequences for Vacation Benefits of Employees on Long-Term Sick Leave New Decision by the European Court of Justice
Newsletter 04/08
Discretionary Payment Clauses
Newsletter 03/08
Social Security Consequences of Irrevocable Leave of Absence -Recent Decision of the Federal Social Court (BSG)
Newsletter 02/08
Co-determination of “Codes of Conduct”