The COVID-19 pandemic brings to light penal and fine regulations that have hitherto led a shadowy existence. In particular, quarantine requirements and curfews and the punishability of violations thereof are currently under discussion.

Workers are entitled to a hardship allowance under various collective agreements if they must wear a respirator at work. For example, the framework collective agreement ...

What are the data protection implications of temperature checks as a Covid-19 precaution? This article investigates, with reference to a current investigation by the Hesse Data Protection...

On March 13, 2020, The German "Datenschutzkonferenz", a collective body comprising independent federal and state data protection authorities, published guidelines regarding Covid-19

Can an employer make employees get a COVID-19 vaccination or dismiss an employee for refusing to do so? How can employers incentivise employees to get vaccinated?

Please find another M&A update due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On March 13, 2020, the European Commission approved and cleared the first European State Aid scheme operated by Denmark to compensate organisers of events for loss or damage caused by...

In early April, the Robert Koch Institute, which is a Federal Institute on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Health, released a COVID-19-App (the "App").

On 16 June 2020, the "Corona-Warn-App" ("the App") was released by the Federal German government. The tracing App, which uses Bluetooth technology, records which smartphones...

Die Ausbreitung des Corona-Virus stellt Arbeitgeber und Beschäftigte weiterhin vor Herausforderungen. Eine Maßnahme zur besseren Eindämmung des Virus ist die Kontaktnachverfolgung, vor allem bei Publikums- und Kundenkontakt.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), spoke of a "monumental moment" when referring to the U.S. government's announcement on May 5, 2021, that the U.S. would support the...

From 20 April 2021, employers in Germany have been required to offer COVID-19 tests to all employees who do not exclusively work from home.

After several weeks of quasi-lockdown in Germany and immense public pressure to lift limitations imposed by COVID-19, more and more companies are starting to resume their activities. For some, this means...