Eversheds Sutherland

Employment and Labour Law

Partner

Bernd Pirpamer is a Partner in the Munich office of Eversheds Sutherland and a member of the German Employment and Labour Law practice group. He is Head of Industrial Relations in Germany.

Primarily, Bernd provides advice on all matters related to works constitution and collective bargaining law. He provides legal and strategic advice to companies, owners, supervisory boards and the respective executives regarding the negotiation and drafting of collective working conditions and conflicts. This includes company agreements on remuneration and working time systems, company collective agreements or collective agreements between a union and an employer association.

Bernd advises companies throughout entire restructuring processes, on conciliation and arbitration boards, on transfers of business and with respect to entering into or changing collective bargaining commitments. This also includes providing legal and strategic advice to companies and associations which are faced with industrial action.

In addition to matters of law, Bernd also advises companies on strategic, conceptual and communicative matters arising from the cooperation with the employees, the different works council committees and trade unions.

Bernd represents companies and managers before labour courts throughout Germany.

Moreover, Bernd is regularly involved in in-house workshops for executives and management teams and holds lectures on labour law-related topics.

Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, he worked for ten years as an in-house lawyer for the Bavarian employers' associations VBM and BayME in the collective agreements department and in the area of collective working conditions. Bernd joined Eversheds Sutherland in 2011. As the Head of Industrial Relations in Germany, Bernd leads the team advising on collective labour relations.

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