What legal stumbling blocks should you be aware of when founding and growing? Our experts are available to answer your questions at our online seminar “Legal FAQs: The most important questions and answers”.
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9/3/2020
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HOW DOES THE CORONA-ALERT APP WORK?
The Corona Alert App (“App”) is used to exchange anonymised contact IDs of smartphones when users with the installed app come close to each other. The IDs are stored decentrally on the...more
Continued Payment of Salary for Parents -
The German federal government has decided to extend the continued payment of salary for parents while there are still daycare and school closures. According to the proposed...more
On April 16, 2020, Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (Bundesminister für Arbeit und Soziales) Hubertus Heil and the CEO of the German statutory accident insurance (Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung) Dr....more
On the evening of April 23, 2020, the coalition committee agreed on further measures to soften social and economic hardship resulting from the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Among other measures, short-time work compensation...more
“SOCIAL CARE ACT” AND THE “ACT ON PEOPLE’S PROTECTION FOR EPIDEMIC SITUATIONS OF NATIONWIDE IMPORTANCE”
In response to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, the laws on people’s protection for epidemic situations of...more
On March 29, 2020, the laws passed last week to protect the population in an epidemic situation of national scope and for social protection in the light of the Corona crisis came into force in the last week.
The social...more
Join us for “Recht After Work”, where we will be discussing current developments and practical possibilities for shaping labour law in Germany.
Please note, this event will be presented fully in German.
With the "Right...more
Join us for “Recht After Work”, where we will be discussing current developments and practical possibilities for shaping labour law in Germany.
Please note, this event will be presented fully in German.
With the "Right...more
Nur selten finden Entscheidungen des Europäischen Gerichtshofs (EuGH) so viel mediale Aufmerksamkeit wie das Urteil zur Arbeitszeiterfassung vom 14. Mai 2019: Der EuGH hat entschieden, dass die Arbeitszeitrichtlinie (EU-RL...more
5/24/2019
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Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
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European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Germany ,
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Over-Time ,
Remuneration ,
Wage and Hour
Der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) hat mit seinen beiden Urteilen vom 6. November 2018 (C-684/16 (Shimizu) und C-619/16 (Kreuziger)) entschieden, dass Urlaubsansprüche zum Ende eines Bezugszeitraums (regelmäßig des...more
On November 6, 2018 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) passed judgment on two German cases (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV v Shimizu [C-684/16] and Kreuziger v Land Berlin [C-619/16]) concerning...more
Seit Inkrafttreten des neuen Mutterschutzgesetzes am 1. Januar 2018 ist die Gefährdungsbeurteilung Mutterschutz für jeden Arbeitsplatz verpflichtend. Die Übergangsfrist für den Nachweis dieser Beurteilung läuft am 31....more
Since the new Maternity Protection Act came into force on January 1, 2018, is has been mandatory for every business to carry out a full maternity protection risk assessment for every job role. The transitional period for...more
More companies are considering paying their employees in tokens such as Bitcoin. The Japanese GMO group and the German Digitalmagazin t3n, for example, have announced that they plan to pay their employees in Bitcoin. This...more
On May 25, 2016, the German Federal Labor Court confirmed a decision of the State Labor Court Berlin-Brandenburg (reference number: 5 AZR 135/16) regarding the statutory minimum wage in Germany. The German Federal Labor...more