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An employee who makes strongly insulting, racist, sexist and violent comments about superiors and other colleagues in a private chat group can only invoke a justified expectation of confidentiality against extraordinary …

The coalition agreement already stipulated the parties’ intention to introduce a new bureaucracy reduction act. The cabinet’s closed meeting in Meseberg marked the “kickoff for a turnaround in bureaucracy”, as announced by …

In its decision of May 26, 2023 (12 TaBV 1/23), the Baden-Württemberg Regional Labor Court (“LAG”) ruled that the determination of the comparative remuneration for a released works council member does not constitute a grading …

When are employees entitled to continued remuneration and when is there a uniform case of prevention in the case of successive periods of illness? The Higher Labour Court of Berlin-Brandenburg (LAG Berlin-Brandenburg) has …

In recent years, the German Federal Social Court (“BSG”) has already increasingly subjected shareholder-managing directors and working shareholders to compulsory pension and unemployment insurance through its case law. A …

In its decision of June 29, 2023, the German Federal Labor Court (“BAG”) ruled that video footage of employees in the workplace can be used as evidence.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has passed a landmark decision that lets public employers breathe a sigh of relief: Permanent staff provision after outsourcing to a service GmbH is not subject to the Temporary Agency Work …

On May 12, 2023, the German Bundesrat has approved the law on the promotion of an inclusive labor market. In provides, inter alia, for an increase in the compensatory levy to be paid by employers.

Lower Saxony Regional Labor Court: Certificate of incapacity for work’s probative value not compromised by an employee's sick leave until termination of the employment relationship (decision of March 8, 2023, Case No. 8 Sa …