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Bundesarbeitsgericht: Unwirksamkeit einer Kündigung bei Korruptionsverdacht wegen fehlerhaften compliance-systems

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • Germany
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  • May 15 2013

Unternehmen sind in den letzten Jahren in erhöhtem Ausmaß Korruptionsrisiken und den damit verbundenen negativen Auswirkungen ausgesetzt. Hierzu

Employer's guide to recovery of wage overpayments

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • Germany, United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 30 2013

Many jurisdictions have enacted statutes governing whether an employer may recover inadvertent overpayments from an employee's wages, including rules

New developments in Germany’s vacation laws: expiration of vacation entitlements in the event of incapacity due to illness

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • August 16 2012

This article explores recent decisions by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and German Federal Labour Court that challenge the previous principles of forfeiture of vacation entitlements for employees in Germany

Works Council information regarding fixed-term hiring

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • Germany
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  • March 1 2012

Pursuant to s. 99 of the Works Constitution Act (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz - BetrVG), any company with more than 20 employees eligible to vote that seeks to hire employees on a fixed-term basis is required to inform the works council of its intentions

Good news for employers: U-turn in case law on fixed-term contracts with a specific reason in the case of “prior employment”

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • Germany
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  • March 1 2012

Pursuant to s.14(2) of the German Part- Time and Fixed-Term Act (Teilzeit- und Befristungsgesetz) (the Act) the term of an employment contract may be fixed without a particular reason for up to two years, provided that the other conditions for fixing the term are met

Rolling out a global antidiscrimination policy

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • France, Germany, Middle East, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 1 2012

Employers with multijurisdictional operations increasingly seek to implement blanket policies that apply equally to their employees wherever they might be based

Works councils and union strike action in Germany, France and the UK

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • France, Germany, United Kingdom
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  • November 30 2011

The Works Constitution Act furnishes a German works council with many rights of information, consultation, veto and co-determination, in a variety of social, personnel and financial matters that concern the employees of a company

Does the new act set new restraints or merely clarify things for employers?

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • Germany
  • -
  • April 21 2011

The German legislature is about to enact a new law to be known as the Employee Data Privacy Act (Beschäftigtendatenschutzgesetz or the Act

Mandatory disclosure to unsuccessful job applicants in Germany?

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • October 14 2010

Germany's anti-discrimination law may be on the brink of change following a referral by Germany's Federal Labor Court to the European Court of Justice (the ECJ

Anonymous job applications in Germany and in France

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • France, Germany
  • -
  • October 14 2010

Job applicants in Germany usually send a "complete application dossier" to the prospective employer which includes their name and age or date of birth

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