We advise and represent enterprises as well as employees, managing boards and managing directors on all essential aspects of labour law.

Our core areas of practice are:

Establishing contracts of employment and service agreements

• Negotiating, formulating and reviewing employment and service contracts

Termination of employment and service agreements

• Advising clients on their chances of success and risks
• Drafting termination notices and agreements; hearing of the employee representative committee
• Defending termination notices of the employer, negotiating termination agreements

Restructuring and alteration of businesses

• Drafting of relevant contracts, especially in cases of outsourcing and business transitions
• Advising on individual and collective legal consequences
• Negotiations with the employee representative
• Drafting and amending social schemes
• Negotiations in the conciliation committee

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and transformations of businesses

• Creation of contracts relating to labour law
• Restructering of employment contracts for managing directors and the managing board

Worker participation/Corporate co-determination

• Negotiations with employee representative committee, in particular with the employee representative
• Drafting of collective wage agreements
• Representation in disputes regarding rights of co-determination

Collective bargaining law

• Assisting in wage negotiations
• Drafting of collective wage agreements
• Disputes resulting from collective wage agreements

Models of flexible working arrangements

• Developing work time models and advising thereon
• Developing flexible models for variable remuneration

Company pension scheme

• Concluding of pension entitlements and advising in cases of disputes