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KLIEMT.Arbeitsrecht
SPEDITIONSTRASSE 21
40221 DÜSSELDORF
Germany

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Germany > Employment Tier 1

With its diverse team across five locations, employment boutique offering KLIEMT.Arbeitsrecht is a renowned address in Germany and advises on all facets of individual and collective employment law. In addition to national and international players, the group is increasingly advising start-ups for whom Martin Eisenbeis, who made partner in January 2024, is a key contact. Central practice pillars include restructuring and transformations, which also mirrors the focus of practice heads Michael Kliemt in Düsseldorf, Barbara Reinhard in Frankfurt, Burkard Göpfert in Munich and Stefan Fischer in Berlin. Reinhard complements this with expertise in collective bargaining law and industrial dispute rights and Fischer with experience in works constitution law and litigation, while Kliemt is also experienced in advising bodies and boards of directors – another mainstay of the practice. Recent instructions further included transaction-related employment matters, ESG, compensation and compliance issues, including internal investigations, as well as matters pertaining to company pension schemes, corporate co-determination and employee data protection. The importance of whistleblowing and whistleblower protection advice was underlined with the promotion of Anja Dachner to the partnership in January 2023. In August 2023, Christoph Seidler (restructuring, collective employment law) joined Osborne Clarke.

Key clients

A.T. Kearney

ABB

Adidas

Air Liquide

Airbus

Allianz

ARAG

Atos

Axel Springer

Bayer

Bosch

Daimler

Deloitte

Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Telekom

DXC

Fresenius

GEA

Henkel

Hermes

Hewlett Packard

H&M

IKB

INGDiba

Intersnack

K+S Aktiengesellschaft

Knorr Bremse

LANXESS

MAN Energy Solutions

Oracle

Porta

Procter & Gamble

Rheinmetall

Roland Berger

Saarstahl

Santander

SAP

Siemens

Siemens Energy

Siemens Healthinieers AG

Stada

Takeaway / Lieferando

Teekanne

Traton

Xerox

Zalando

Work highlights

Employment law support for Axel Springer SE pertaining to its group restructuring, including strategic advice; Design of the volunteer program and the social plan in the event of staff reductions in the media divisions as well as company splits and mergers.
Advising Lanxess on the intended layoff of around 1,000 employees with site closures in Germany. Negotiations with the Chemical Industry Union (IGBCE) with the aim of waiving claims for additional salary payments in 2023.
Advising Ernst & Young GmbH on the company split in connection with the restructuring of numerous jobs; including negotiation of the upstream volunteer program and reconciliation of interests.

The firm: With about 90 certified employment law specialists and attorneys, KLIEMT.HR Lawyers is one of the largest and most successful firms specialising in employment law in Germany. KLIEMT.HR Lawyers focuses on providing employment and labour law advice to national and international enterprises. With offices in Dusseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Berlin, KLIEMT.HR Lawyers offers comprehensive and high-calibre advice on all questions of employment law – competent, practice-oriented, creative and tailored to the specific requirements of the enterprise in question.

The two founding partners, Prof Dr Michael Kliemt and Dr Oliver Vollstädt, and all the other partners in the firm, originally practised at large international law firms and therefore have many years of international professional experience. The firm represents its clients’ interests throughout Germany at all employment courts up to the level of the Federal Labour Court, including proceedings for a preliminary ruling before the European Court of Justice.

lus Laboris – Global Human Resources Lawyers: KLIEMT.HR Lawyers is a member of lus Laboris, the global alliance of leading law firms providing specialised services in employment/labour law, employee benefits, immigration and pensions law. With more than 1,500 lawyers lus Laboris provides local human resources law expertise across the globe, with member firms in over 55 countries and a presence in more than 100 countries. The seamless international coverage enables KLIEMT.HR Lawyers to provide clients with fully co-ordinated global legal advice on all aspects of human resources.

Clients: KLIEMT.HR Lawyers’ clients include a large number of well-known German and international companies across all industry sectors, above all in the metals and chemical industries, banks and insurance companies, trade, IT and service companies, including many EURO STOXX 50, DAX 30 and MDAX companies.

Areas of practice: The expertise of KLIEMT.HR Lawyers covers all areas of employment law, pensions law and immigration, such as restructuring, outsourcing, transfer of undertakings (s613a German Civil Code), works council constitution law, collective bargaining agreements, trade unions and industrial action, due diligence, privatisation, employee benefits and pension schemes, boards of directors and managing directors, co-determination matters, temporary hire of employees, international secondment of personnel, contracts of employment and termination agreements, remuneration schemes and stock option plans, flexible working hours schemes, ethics guidelines, codes of conduct, corporate governance, compliance, anti-discrimination and equal treatment concerns.

Department	Name	Email	Telephone
Employment and pensions
Social security
Commercial agents
Contracts of employment
Outsourcing
Company turnaround, reorganisation and restructuring
Works council constitution
Collective bargaining
Occupational pension schemes
Liability of company officers and representative bodies
Advising supervisory boards in co-determination matters
International assignment
Drafting and optimising contracts of employment and termination
Remuneration and employee participation plans
Flexible working hours schemes
Ethics guidelines, corporate governance, compliance

Name	Position	Profile
Burkard Göpfert	Partner	View Profile
Markus Janko	Partner	View Profile
Michael Kliemt	Partner	View Profile
Jochen Saal	Partner	View Profile
Jan L. Teusch	Partner	View Profile
Alexander Ulrich	Partner	View Profile
Oliver Vollstädt	Partner	View Profile