Dietmar Heise > Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH > Cologne, Germany > Lawyer Profile
Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH Offices
ANNA-SCHNEIDER-STEIG 22
50678 COLOGNE
Germany
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Dietmar Heise
Work Department
Employment Law
Future Work
Position
Dietmar Heise advises large corporations and medium-sized businesses on all matters pertaining to employment law and he also advises corporate bodies and executives on contractual issues. He specialises in advising on employment law aspects in restructurings (transfers of undertaking, negotiating reconciliation plans, social plans and company bargaining agreements), other issues under works constitution law and also matters related to collective bargaining and industrial action law as well as all matters concerning board members, managing directors and senior executives. Another focus of his work is assisting with the employment law aspects of agile projects and advising on temporary employment issues, including differentiating between temporary employment and third-party work on the basis of service contracts or contracts for work and labour. In matters relating to the right of co-determination, Dietmar Heise has advised several works council and supervisory board elections, which included dealing with how to cancel or contest them. His industry focus is retail and wholesale trade as well as the automotive, mechanical engineering and logistics industries.
Career
Before joining Luther in 2004, Dietmar Heise was a member of the Board of the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA) and simultaneously the Managing Director of the service company GDA, a subsidiary of the BDA. Previously, Dietmar Heise had been responsible for the employment law practice area and the collective bargaining policy at Metro AG and, among other responsibilities, was the deputy head of the BDA’s employment law department; he also worked as a research assistant for Prof. Wolfgang Hromadka at the University of Passau, Germany. For a period of nine years, from 1999 to 2008, he sat as an honorary judge for the Federal Labour Court.
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- Transport > Advice to the transport sector
- Dispute resolution > Arbitration (including international arbitration)
- Real estate and construction > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Information technology > Data protection
- Employment
- Industry focus > Energy
- Information technology > IT transactions and outsourcing
- Transport > Maritime and shipping
- Real estate and construction > Project development
- Public sector > Public procurement
- Trade and distribution > Trade, distribution and logistics
- Public sector > Commercial administrative law
- Banking and finance > Fintech
- Trade and distribution > Foreign trade law
- Industry focus > Healthcare and life sciences
- Information technology > Information technology and digitalisation
- Banking and finance > Investment funds
- Dispute resolution > Product liability
- Public sector > State aid
- Industry focus > Telecoms
- Intellectual property > Unfair competition
- White-collar crime > Advice to companies
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Antitrust
- Corporate and M&A > Corporate
- Corporate and M&A > M&A
- Real estate and construction > Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency > Restructuring
- Intellectual property > Trade marks
- Private equity > Venture capital
- Capital markets > Debt capital markets
- Media > Entertainment
- Restructuring and insolvency > Insolvency
- Private clients and non-profits
- Tax
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation