Die verdrängende Betriebsvereinbarung

This work discusses the question of whether works agreements simply overlay competing provisions in employment contracts or replace them for good. This topic relates to one of the fundamental issues of German labour law, namely the relationship between employment contracts and works agreements, and thus the relationship between individual and collective labour law. This topic is a perennial issue in labour law literature, which has been discussed for decades and has recently returned to the centre of attention because of new decisions by the Federal Labour Court in Germany.