Zweiseitige Abmahnung?

Improvement agreements are not widely used in labor law practice, although their proponents attribute considerable advantages to them when dealing with employee misconduct. The functions of a warning letter are supposed to be achieved by means of an agreement and additionally the necessary improvement in performance is supposed to be promoted by the parties agreeing on individual corrective goals and measures. This dissertation examines the question of whether and how the improvement agreement functions as a bilateral regulatory instrument in the existing system of protection against dismissal and to what extent employers and employees can be advised to use this instrument.