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German Data Protection Authority issues 36,000 fine against Lidl for collection of employee health data

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • August 31 2009

On August 19, 2009, the state DPA in North Rhine-Westphalia fined a subsidiary of the discount supermarket chain Lidl 36,000 (approximately $51,000) for illegally keeping records of employee health data

Storing and screening employee emails abroad

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • February 25 2008

This Update sets forth new considerations for email policies in the United States due to the NLRB’s recent ruling in Guard Publishing

New German SOX whistleblower guidelines: some help for U.S. companies

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • Germany, USA
  • -
  • May 9 2007

German authorities have issued new whistleblower guidelines, which allow U.S. companies to implement hotlines in Germany

New German legislation on smoking bans

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • April 21 2008

A Federal law passed on 1 July 2007 the Protection Against the Dangers of Passive Smoking Act imposed a smoking ban in all buildings owned by the Federal Government, on public transport and in train stations

Absence due to illness does not result in the forfeiture of holiday entitlements

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • February 19 2009

The current position under German law is that every employee has the right to a minimum of 24 days' paid holiday each year (although agreements can be made to enhance this statutory minimum

Germany’s government extends partial unemployment compensation

  • White & Case LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 24 2009

In the US, laid-off employees are eligible for state unemployment compensation

Employment update, Germany June 2007

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • June 25 2007

With effect from 1 May 2007, the legislation on Part Time and Limitation of Employment Contracts (Teilzeit- und Befristungsgesetz TzBfG) has been amended

May pilots be prohibited from flying based on age? The first court rulings regarding the General Equal Treatment Act

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • July 2 2007

Germany enacted the General Equal Treatment Act more than six months ago, but the feared onslaught of discrimination lawsuits has not occurred

German Government boosts employment prospects of older workers (for now!)

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • June 29 2007

On 1 May 2007 the German Government introduced legislative changes in an attempt to improve the employment opportunities of older workers

Principles of age discrimination

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • July 2 2007

One of the explicit purposes of the General Equal Treatment Act is to reduce or eliminate discrimination based on age