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Digitising personnel files

As digitalisation in the working environment strongly increases and remote working is on the rise, personnel files are also increasingly being maintained in a digital format. This offers significant…

Merger control of Venture Capital investments

Due to the 10th amendment of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen, following “ARC”), which entered into force at the beginning of this year (see…

Das Transparenzregister: Für Unternehmen gelten neue Meldepflichten

Der Gesetzgeber geht davon aus, dass die Anzahl der mitteilungspflichtigen Unternehmen damit auf 2,3 Mio. ansteigt. Während bisher oftmals die Mitteilungsfiktion galt, wonach die Eintragung in ein…

Corona Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance extended

The Federal Cabinet has approved the extension and amendment of the Corona Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance. Basic tried and tested occupational safety measures will be retained - such as the…

Current BAG decision: loss of probative value of medical certificate after notice of termi-nation

The Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, BAG) recently had to deal with the probative value of a medical certificate (in German ‘Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung’ or ‘AU’ in short) and decided…

Beitrag im Dispute Resolution-Magazin zum Thema: „Kommen die Inkasso-Sammelkläger? Air-Berlin Entscheidung und neues Legal-Tech-Gesetz“

myright, wenigermiete.de und financialright haben es vorgemacht und Start-Ups wie RightNow ziehen mit Ansprüchen, die die Coronapandemie hervorgebracht hat, nach – die Sammelkläger rücken immer mehr…

No obvious lack of competence of a conciliation committee with regard to the introduction of electronic recording of working time

The Munich Higher Labour Court recently had to deal with the establishment of a conciliation committee to arrange the "introduction of electronic recording of working time" and decided that the works…