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Labor and Employment Law - Munich, Germany
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Dr Michaela Felisiak is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. She advises national and international clients and businesses on all issues of the German and European social-security law and labour law. Among other things, she focuses her work on providing legal advice on cross-border matters. In this context she advises on all labour and social security law issues in connection with cross-border employee assignments (secondmen...
Martin Fink is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. His area of expertise especially comprises collective and individual labour law, on which he advises national and international companies. Negotiations with bodies under works constitution law (group/central/individual works councils) at the occasion of restructurings are as much part of his area of expertise as the defence of employers against dismissal protection or...
Attorney Certified Employment Law Specialist/Attorney-at-Law (NY) Partner Katja Giese advises employers above all in connection with international corporate transactions, the subsequent integration and restructurings. She is also widely experienced in international project management. Katja Giese is admitted as an attorney at law (NY) in the United States, where she has spent parts of her previous career. She is particularly experienced in the technology sector.
Attorney Certified Employment Law Specialist Partner Burkard Göpfert advises primarily on complex transformation, integration and restructuring projects and on the harmonisation of employment conditions. He is the author and (co-)editor of a large number of textbooks on the topics of restructuring and employment law, and a lecturer at Passau University, and for over ten years he has organised the Handelsblatt annual conference on restructuring. Burkard Göpfert is also co-editor of t...
Dr. Oliver Grimm has been working for vangard since its founding. He advises companies with international and national operations on all matters of individual and collective employment law. Before vangard was established, he was an equity partner of an international business law firm and advised on all issues of employee representation law and on compliance with employment law. Drafting company agreements and providing legal support for restructuring remain key areas of his work. Oliver Grimm...
Dr Daniel Hund is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. He advises both national and international corporations on European and German labour and employment law. His work includes restructuring companies (including staffing cutbacks, outsourcing and transfer of business), collective bargaining and dealing with works councils (a works council is a kind of co-managing committee elected by the employees of a certain compan...
Christina Kamppeter is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. She advises both national and international companies on all areas of individual and collective employment law, in particular on negotiations with works councils and unions. Another focus of her practice is the restructuring of companies (including staff reduction, outsourcing and transfer of business). In this connection, she advises on all related questions ...
Dr Corinne Klapper is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. Her area of expertise comprises advice to employers on labour and social law issues as well as their representation before courts of law and towards public authorities such as the German Federal Employment Agency, the Integration Offices or the German Pension Insurance Association. She particularly focuses on advising employers in complex litigation against emp...
Markus Künzel is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. He particularly advises his national and international clients on collective and individual labour law issues and represents them in legal proceedings in all courts, also in landmark cases before the Federal Labour Court. He is focusing on the planning and implementation of corporate restructurings, transactions and reorganisation measures. In so doing, he is a...
Dr Wolfgang Lipinski is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. He advises German and international companies on collective and individual labour law issues and represents them in legal proceedings, often in landmark cases, in all courts up to the Federal Labour Court. He particularly focuses on the strategic planning and implementation of restructuring and reorganisation measures (inter alia (mass) redundancies, transfer...
Dr Stefan Lochner is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT’s Munich office and member of the Labour Law practice group. His area of expertise comprises restructurings, reorganisations & insolvencies for private as well as for public employers. He particularly advises his national and international clients in all matters related to individual or collective labour law.
Dennis Lüers advises national and international companies in all areas of individual and collective employment law. The focus of his work is on industrial constitution law and collective bargaining, employment law advice in the context of restructuring projects as well as supporting his clients in operational conciliation proceedings. Dennis Lüers has several years of experience as the specialist for employment law and operational management consultant for Germany in the personnel d...
Dr Hans-Peter Mechlem is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich and Hamburg office and member of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group. He mainly focuses on civil law disputes for corporate clients and insolvency matters. Dr. Mechlem has a longstanding expertise regarding large actions for damages and liability proceedings as well in defending class-actions against OEM manufactures. Dr. Hans Peter Mechlem is also acting as trustee in M&A transactions and in corporate restru...
Dr Christopher Melms is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and Head of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. He is focusing on the food and semi-luxuries industry, the health sector as well as on media/entertainment/publishing companies. He is advising and representing German and foreign companies, in particular, with regard to collective bargaining and labour-management relations law. His activities are concentrated on the advising of companies within the scope of pr...
Dr Florian Olms is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. His area of activity comprises advice to national and international clients on all aspects of individual and collective labour law. The main focus of his work is assisting enterprises with restructuring and reorganisation measures, advice on collective law issues and also on questions in connection with the acquisition and sale of enterprises and undertakings, especiall...
Dr. Christian Ostermaier Attorney Certified labor law attorney Certified commercial and corporate law attorney Solicitor (England and Wales) Specialists areas : Labour law, corporate law Dr. Christian Ostermaier provides advice to companies of any size, mostly medium-sized companies, as well as their shareholders in respect of all issues of company law, particularly including cases of corporate transactions, and labor law, amongst others works constitutional issues such as the concluding of c...
Dr. Matthias Sandmaier advises national and international clients on all aspects of individual and collective employment law. His work focuses on restructuring, negotiating with employee representatives and dealing with termination-related issues. He also provides advice on executive hiring and on international matters such as the posting of employees abroad and on employment law related to corporate transactions.Before joining vangard, Matthias worked for many years for a major medium-sized ...
born in Bonn 1996-2001 Graduate Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn and the Philipps University Marburg 2001-2003 Compulsory legal training in Düsseldorf and Toronto, Canada 2003-2006 Lawyer at Haas & Partner, Düsseldorf 2004 Admission to the German Bar Association 2006-2007 Lawyer at Esch & Kramer, Wuppertal 2007-2018 Lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Munich, partner since 2013 2009 Certified labor and employment law specialist 2018 Partner at Pu...
Dr Erik Schmid is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. His area of expertise comprises rendering advice on individual and collective labour law to German and international companies and representing them in court nationwide. Dr Schmid advises his clients particularly on issues and structures in connection with entrepreneurial co-determination (e.g., companies with more than 500 or 2,000 employees, or European Companies...
Dr. Tomas van Dorp Attorney Certified labor law attorney Specialists areas: Labor law, corporate law Dr. Tomas van Dorp works in the labor law and company law departments. He specializes in consulting and representation of private enterprises, public entities (municipal / city administrations, municipal enterprises) and private individuals in respect of labor law, service law and company law. As a certified labor law attorney, he provides advice on all issues, including works constitution, co...
Eler von Bockelmann has years of experience in advising and supporting medium-sized clients, particularly from the automotive, IT, medical technology and paper industries as well as other sectors, both with regard to employment law and with regard to general legal issues arising in companies on a day-to-day basis. He also looks after the German subsidiaries of foreign, in particular US companies.
Dr. Esther Dehmel advises national and international companies in all areas of employment law, with a focus on compliance, restructuring and corporate codetermination. In her advice, she always keeps strategic and economic aspects in mind. Her clients appreciate her as a persistent, communicative partner who helps to develop creative and customized solutions, even beyond the scope of employment law. Esther has focused her practice on labor law since 2015. Esther served as a legal clerk at the...
Labor and Employment Law Definition
Labor and employment relationships are of great significance in any economy. In Germany, these relations are governed by a complex structure of statues and regulations on national and international level as well as by a very dynamic case law. As several mandatory employee protection rights have their origin in European law not only the precedents of the national labor courts but also the rulings of the European Court of Justice influence German labor and employment law significantly. As a result it is safe to say that labor and employment law is one of the most dynamic fields of law in Germany.
As labor and employment lawyers we do not only deal with the relations between employees and employers (individual employment law) but also between works councils and trade unions and employers and employers' associations (collective employment law). Further in M&A transactions the advice of an employment lawyer is sought by companies, employees, and works councils. Social security law and data protection law also influence employment relations.
The advice an employment lawyer offers in individual employment will include the drafting or revision of employment contracts, advise any issues arising during the employment relationship such as disciplinary issues, maternity and parental rights, working time and minimum wages issues, compliance investigations, etc. An important area of individual employment law will deal with the issues arising when an employment relationship is terminated. This will include the preparation of a notice of termination as well as the representation of employers and employees in law suits in termination protection proceedings in front of a labor court. More and more employment lawyers are asked to advise on discrimination issues which may occur when hiring or promoting an employee and can render a notice unlawful even if the employment relationship does not fall within the scope of the termination protection act.
A labor and employment lawyer will also help navigate through the complex system of collective labor law. Trade unions and employers' associations negotiate rules that apply on an industry wide, regional level or for specific groups of employees (e.g. pilots, train drivers, etc.). Works council have extensive co-determination rights and again will negotiate with the employer specific rules for the plant or company in which they represent the employees. Conflicts arising between employers and works councils will be dealt with in a specific dispute resolution process and under certain circumstances in court. Both during the formal dispute resolution process as well as in court both parties will often rely on the advice of their employment lawyer.
In case of restructuring measures, a labor and employment lawyer will advise the employer and works council on the requirement to negotiate a compromise of interests agreement and a social plan and be at their side during the negotiation process.
When companies and businesses are sold, both the works councils' rights to be informed and consulted with as well as the protection of the acquired rights of individual employees will have to be looked at from a legal perspective.
Labor and employment law is a highly specialized and
dynamic area of law. A lawyer active in this field of law will have to consider
not only the legal aspects of the client’s issues but also the practical and
often emotional issues the client is faced with.
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