The prohibition of discrimination against fixed-term employees has already been the subject of a large number of decisions by both the ECJ and the BAG [German Federal Labor Court

On February 9, 2023, the European Court of Justice determined that the German regulations for the dismissal of data protection officers may be stricter than the GDPR stipulates.

In two decisions, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruled on 7 December 2023 on SCHUFA scoring and the processing practices of SCHUFA Holding AG...

In its ruling of March 5, 2024 (VI ZR 330/21), the Federal Court of Justice ("BGH") further clarified the scope of the right of access in yet another decision.

While the complaint was dismissed in the first instance, the plaintiff's appeal was successful.

The German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) has submitted its long-awaited proposal for a Corporate Sanctions Act (VerSanG). When corporate crimes

In our newsletter article of March 2019, which was only based on press release No. 9/19 of the BAG [German Federal Labor Court] regarding the judgment of Feb. 19, 2019 - 9 AZR 541/15

Pharmaceutical advertising is regulated by the Act on Advertising in the Health Care System [HWG]. Courts regularly must decide which information about prescription drugs (Rx compounds) may also be made available to consumers and the means by which Rx compounds can be advertised

Increasingly far-reaching restrictions with respect to the COVID-19 virus also bring to light the issue of timely drafting, auditing, adoption, and publication of annual and consolidated financial statements...

The German Federal Government has amended the Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance to increase the barriers for M&A transactions involving non-EU investors.

The regulation of March 25, 2020 was announced in the Federal Law Gazette on March 27, 2020 and entered into force retroactively as of March 1, 2020. It is initially valid until December 31, 2020.

A company granted the works council access to its electronic employee salary file – the payroll showing gross salaries, while stripping employees' names from the list, thus in anonymized

Half days of leave granted by the employer may be claimed again by the employee due to inadmissible fulfillment of the vacation entitlement.

Due to the current corona pandemic, many employers are enabling their employees to work from home. But what if the employee has an accident while working from home?

On December 21, the ECJ ruled in Case C-667/21 on issues relating to health data in the employment context.

The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance ("GALA") recently elected three new members to its Executive Committee.

Companies and taxpayers alike are experiencing massive liquidity shortages due to the far-reaching restrictions on the economy and on public life caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,

In Germany, an employee (Arbeitnehmer) enjoys a special status that is described as the personal obligation to perform work upon the employer's instructions, without entrepreneurial risks ...

"To improve the enforcement and consistency of data protection, we are strengthening European cooperation, institutionalizing the Data Protection Conference in the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – BDSG) and want to enable it to make legally binding decisions where possible."

The Heidelberg Regional Court rejected an employee's claim for access to information about the employer's processing of his personal data insofar as this data is merely located in backup files of...