englischUnexpected crisis scenarios often result in companies having an unforeseeable surplus of workers, which may only be temporary. At the same time, it is possible that an increased demand for products or services in other sectors of the economy can hardly be met. In this context, a [...]
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englischOvertime work is a frequent phenomenon. However, it is compensated in only about half of all cases. The book shows that the legal foundations of the topic of overtime have not been clarified and that the current interpretation therefore leads to inappropriate results. It analyses the legal [...]
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englischSince the Covid-19 pandemic, protection against infection has been an omnipresent topic. Employers can influence the occurrence of infection risks in their company when hiring or terminating an employment contract. Taking into account discrimination law, the author analyses the information [...]
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englischThe thesis deals with the distinction between trade secrets and the work experience of former employees. The author distinguishes the terms and finds practical criteria for the remaining consideration.
The distinction between trade secrets and the experience of former employees has always [...]
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englischThe book deals with the controversial question of the dogmatic basis of the works committee's right of access and provides its own solution. Accordingly, the right results from a further development of the law with respect to the works committee’s general right to information regulated in [...]
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englischIn seven chapters, this paper contains the most comprehensive evaluation to date of the ECJ decision "CCOO" (C 55/18) on the recording of working time, which has been described as "big bang". In particular, the author defines the term "objective, reliable and accessible time recording [...]
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englischThe dissertation examines the question, which has not been fundamentally investigated so far, of what effects it has on the economic protection of employees when short-time work coincides with another reason for work absence. The analysis of the individual cases of collision includes a [...]
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englischThe ongoing discussion about labour standards and corporate due diligence in global supply chains continues. Evidently, labour standards and due diligence are no longer a voluntary issue. This work identifies governance gaps in global supply chains and examines the regulation of labour [...]
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englischIn cross-border mergers into Germany, the management is often induced to forego negotiations on employee participation at an early stage by way of the “management decision” in favour of the statutory standard rules. This effect contradicts the legislative ideal of negotiated employee [...]
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englischThe reasonable employer („verständiger Arbeitgeber“) and the reasonable employee („verständiger Arbeitnehmer“) are rhetorical constructs of argumentation used by labor law courts in Germany. Analyzing over 170 court decisions of the German Federal Labor Court (BAG) referencing these legal [...]
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