Although emergency plans, risk plans and safety laws have also existed for a long time in the energy sector, they have not been relevant to date because there was no acute risk situation.

If an employee announces a future inability to work in the event that the employer fails to comply with an unjustified holiday demand or in the event of other conduct of the employer, this can represent a good cause.

A European Works Council (EWC) cannot prevent an operational measure by an employer, in this case a business closure, by way of a forbearance order.

The Regional Labour Court of Hessen ruled by judgement of 24 January 2012 (docket no. 19 SaGa 1480/11) that an employer must delete any data concerning an employee.

As of July 12, 2023, the Foreign Subsidies Regulation ("FSR"), which has been eagerly awaited by M&A practitioners in particular, will largely take effect.

For many enterprises the new business year 2012 already begins on 1 October, whilst those enterprises for which the business year commences as of 1 January are often still frequently occupied with budget planning.

The European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) ruled by judgement dated 21 July 2011 (docket no. 28274/08) that employees who publicly disclose deficiencies within the enterprise of their employer cannot be terminated without notice.

Pursuant to Sec. 111 sentence 1 BetrVG, in the event of changes in the operational business of an enterprise which regularly has more than 20 employees with voting rights, employers must consult with the works council on a compromise of interests.

The Federal Labour Court ruled by judgement dated 23 March 2011 (docket no. 4 AZR 366/09) that qualified differentiation clauses in collective agreements in the form of so-called "adjustment clauses" (Spannklausel) are invalid.

A discussion on the intention of planning a reform of the German Part-Time and Fixed-Term Employment Act [Teilzeit- und Befristungsgesetzes, TzBfG].

In its ruling of 29 June 2022, the German Federal Supreme Court affirmed that the application of English inheritance law to the estate of a person living in Germany has to be regarded as a violation of German...

Germany's second legislative chamber, the Bundesrat, has today approved the compromise issued by the joint committee of both houses, under which dividends paid to corporations will in future be fully taxable, if the recipient corporation holds less than 10% of the shares in the paying entity.

For years there has been a cross-party discussion of a gender-equitable representation on the supervisory boards and management boards of listed and co-determined enterprises.

On 16 December 2022 - and thus exactly three years after the EU Whistleblower Directive came into force - the Bundestag passed the new, long overdue German Whistleblower Protection Act...

The federal and state governments have been able to reach a compromise on the protection of whistleblowers, and today, 12 May 2023, the Bundesrat approved the amended German...

The law on industrial disputes is constantly in motion.

In cases in which the claimant names concrete indications to the effect that he may have been legally incapacitated when making a gift, an expert opinion definitely has to be obtained...

On 13 July 2010 the European Commission presented a Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on "Conditions of Entry and Residence of Third-Country Nationals in the framework of an intra-corporate transfer" (KOM(2010) 378).

Wednesday night, the joint committee of German parliament has adopted changes to its group taxation legislation, which mainly focus on relaxing rules on profit transfers, while at the same time increasing the red tape with respect to the wording of the profit-and-loss-pooling agreement necessary to conclude a tax group.

The Cologne Tax Court has supported the Revenue's decision to disallow an input-VAT refund in cases, where some of the fields on the official refund application form were left blank (reference number: 2 K 4627/06, 2 K 813/10, 2 K 354/10).