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In 2017, the ECJ had already decided that an employer’s interest in a religiously “neutral” appearance of his employees with direct customer contact might prevail over religious freedom and, consequently, a headscarf ban …

Numerous employees have been working on short-time since the Corona pandemic. Now that the holiday season has started, employers are often faced with the question of how this affects the holiday entitlements of their …

On 18 June 2021 the Works Council Modernisation Act has come into force. Just before the end of the legislative period, an important part of the coalition agreement has been implemented. The law is intended to facilitate the …

In an employer subject to the provisions of the German collective agreement for the public sector (“TVöD”) transfers tasks to a third party, such employer can, pursuant to Art. 4 Sec. 3 TVöD, request his employees previously …

In order to clarify the question whether the German Federal Data Protection Act’s (“BDSG”) requirements for the removal of a data protection officer are in accordance with the European General Data Protection Regulation …

With the decision of the German Federal Labor Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht - BAG) of April 27, 2021, the world of labor law was eagerly awaiting a decision on whether or not the right to be provided with a copy pursuant to …

After a tough struggle over the coalition agreement in 2018, the governing parties decided to implement stricter regulations on fixed-term contracts in this legislative period.

According to the German Law on Temporary Employment (Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz; “AÜG”), supplying temporary workers is only possible with a permit (Art. 1 Sec. 1 sentence 1 AÜG). However, there are exemptions from such …

Due to the pandemic, many employees are still subject to short-time work arrangements. The simplified short-time work regulations which had been passed by the federal government in spring 2020 in order to mitigate the …

Are night shift workers and occasional night workers comparable? "Yes, they are!", ruled the German Federal Labor Court (BAG) in its judgment of December 9, 2020, file no.10 AZR 334/20. Different pay rates for night work are …