Management Consulting - Set up of Personnel Structure

  • Drafting of employment contracts with executive board members/managing directors/employees 
  • Preparing company codes of practice and manuals 
  • Drafting corporate governance documention
 

Current Advising

  • Negotiating and concluding shop agreements/service contracts in all areas of co-determination 
  • Introducing flexible remuneration schemes
  • Tactical advice on the mutual termination of employment
    contracts
  • Preparing and implementing notices of termination
  • Social security issues 
  • Legal issues associated with company pensions and semiretirement 
  • Advice on fixed term contracts and part-time work
  • Effects of European law
  • Conducting cases leading to judgments and cases in chambers at every instance and at every employment court
 

International Project Management

  • International relocation of businesses 
  • International acquisitions 
  • Global joint ventures 
  • International outsourcing
 

International Labour Deployment

  • Secondment contracts 
  • Company-internal guidelines on secondments
  • Remuneration regulations and pension agreements
 

Representation of Executive Personnel

  • Executive board members contracts/managing directors contracts 
  • Mutual termination agreements and winding-up contracts 
  • All aspects of litigation

 

Insolvency Advice

  • Laying off personnel in the course of insolvency 
  • Working together with the receiver
 

Issues relating to Industrial Constitution Law/Personnel Representation Law

  • Questions relating to co-determination at the works council, company and group level 
  • Concluding shop agreements/service contracts 
  • European works council 
  • Negotiations on the reconciliation of interests and redundancy schemes
  • Proceedings before conciliation boards
  • Acting in cases decided in chambers
 

Issues under Collective Bargaining Law

  • Collective agreements 
  • Negotiation and conclusion of collective agreements 
  • “Bündnisse für Arbeit” (alliance between the government, employers and unions to reduce unemployment and to improve competitiveness in trade and industry) 
  • Collective agreements in connection with corporate recovery 
  • Schemes for the substitution of collective agreements 
  • Assistance with industrial disputes
 

Closure of Sites/Personnel Reductions (Redundancies)

  • Concepts for economic recovery in co-operation with management consultants and banks 
  • Reconciliation of interests and redundancy schemes 
  • Individual mutual termination agreements and winding-up contracts
  • Preparing mass redundancy notices 
  • Conducting unlawful dismissal cases
 

Acquisition of Companies

  • Due diligence on labour law 
  • Restructuring
  • Legal issues involved in corporate transformations 
  • Outsourcing 
  • Transfer of undertakings
 

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Last update: 02. June 2008
 
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