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Christine Wahlig
Attorney at law
Editorial Management

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Marketing Manager

Inside Workplace Law

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22. October 2021

No entitlement to the expression of regret in a job reference

An employee whose performance has been assessed as “good” in the final reference is not entitled to an expression of regret about their departure and certainly [...]

18. October 2021

Employers can order employees to return from working from home

Employers who have allowed their employees to work from home during the pandemic can later order them to work in the office/company again if this is justified [...]

28. September 2021

Employee must prove incapacity for work if sick leave and dismissal coincide

If an employee resigns and is on sick leave on the same day for the exact duration of the notice period, there are serious doubts as to whether the employee is [...]

18. August 2021

No additional leave days in case of quarantine due to Coronavirus infection

The labor court of Bonn (07.07.2021 – 2 Ca 504/21) has clarified that days of leave are not additionally granted due to a Coronavirus infection during leave. I [...]

18. August 2021

A threat of sick leave can justify an extraordinary dismissal

Employees threatening their employers with sick leave is not an uncommon phenomenon. Additionally, to the loss of work force, the employer owes continued [...]

12. August 2021

News from the ECJ regarding the headscarf ban in companies

Are employers allowed to prohibit their employees from wearing religious symbols such as headscarves at work for reasons of neutrality? The ECJ addressed this [...]

26. July 2021

The statutory minimum wage also applies to foreign caregivers working in German private households

The case at hand concerned an employee who was a Bulgarian national and had been employed by a Bulgarian company since 2015. The employment relationship was [...]

5. May 2021

When do crowdworkers become employees? Incentive systems as a means of heteronomy

Update from the Practice Group HR Compliance and occupational health & safety The platform economy is a symbol of the digital transformation of our society [...]

15. March 2021

On-call duty as working time according to the ECJ

News from Luxemburg: The ECJ decided in two cases on the issue of on-call duty as working time: When is an employee’s time spent waiting for a possible a [...]

8. March 2021

Prohibited discrimination between employees with disabilities

The comprehensive principle of non-discrimination in the General Law on equal treatment – GET (“Allgemeines Gleichberechtigungsgesetz” – “AGG”) or the Social In [...]