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Have rejected job applicants the right to know the reasons for not getting the job

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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  • Germany
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  • May 15 2013

Recently, the German Federal Labor Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht "BAG") rendered a decision which had been awaited with interest by German employers

German Court rules that lower severance pay for older employees is possible

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Germany
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  • April 30 2013

According to a recent decision of the German Federal Labor Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht), a lower amount of severance can now be stipulated for older

Part-time employment during part-time parental leave

  • Oppenhoff & Partner Rechtsanwälte
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  • Germany
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  • April 17 2013

By judgement of 19 February 2013 (docket no.: 9 AZR 46111), the Federal Labour Court confirmed that an employee can demand the reduction of hisher

Dispute regarding temporary workers in permanent employment positions

  • Oppenhoff & Partner Rechtsanwälte
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  • Germany
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  • April 17 2013

Besides the previously presented decisions of the Federal Labour Court, temporary employment has also occupied the courts of lower instance. The

New decisions of the Federal Labour Court on the inclusion of temporary workers in legal threshold values

  • Oppenhoff & Partner Rechtsanwälte
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  • Germany
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  • April 17 2013

Whether or not temporary workers deployed at enterprises should be included in statutory threshold values was the subject matter of two decisions

Age limits permissible in shop agreements

  • Oppenhoff & Partner Rechtsanwälte
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  • Germany
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  • April 17 2013

By judgement dated 5 March 2013 (Docket No.: 1 AZR 41712), the Federal Labour Court affirmed the permissibility of age limits in shop agreements

Pseudo contracts for works and services and the disguised provision of temporary workers

  • Oppenhoff & Partner Rechtsanwälte
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  • Germany
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  • April 17 2013

In the current discussion about the abusive use of contracts for works and services (see also 2.1 below), the Federal Labour Court of

New developments regarding temporary workers in Germany

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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  • Germany
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  • March 20 2013

German companies rely heavily on temporary workers. Due to fundamental legislative reforms in the mid-2000s, it is possible to pay temporary workers

German Federal Labor Court: works council may itself decide on data protection measures to be applied on its computers

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • Germany
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  • March 20 2013

The German Federal Labor Court had to decide on a work council's demand to be provided with a personal computer with a group account for access to

Breach of prohibition on competition other earnings during garden leave

  • CMS Hasche Sigle
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  • Germany
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  • March 20 2013

A recent Federal Labour Court decision dismissed a claim of a former employer to surrender the remuneration which the employee had received from a