Tätigkeitsbezug als Sachgrund der Befristung des Arbeitsvertrags

Based on a new, comprehensive approach, this work places the objective reasons for fixed-term employment contracts in German labour law under intense scrutiny. As a result of the author considering ECJ case law in this respect, a legally certain assessment criterion for every potential objective reason arises: their specific relation to the occupational context. By comparing this criterion with German law (§ 14 (1) of the TzBfG, Germany’s law on part-time work and fixed-term employment) and the case law in this respect, the author reveals the selective need for substantial modification of the law in question. He points out ways and means to deal with those necessary modifications to ensure that the objective reasons for fixed-term employment contracts in German law conform with EU law.