Nina Stephan

Nina Stephan provides legal advice to national and international clients within the field of individual and collective employment law. This includes, inter alia, drafting service and employment contracts and negotiating works agreements, providing legal advice concerning restructuring of companies and redundancy as well providing legal advice concerning employee data protection. Another focus of her advisory services is on employment litigation.

Employment Law

Nina Stephan studied law at the University of Bochum (Germany). From October 2012 to November 2014, she carried out her legal training at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm (Germany), as part of which she worked for the employment and data protection law departments of law firms in Düsseldorf and Essen (Germany) – inter alia, Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH. Nina Stephan joined Luther in 2015.

• Arbeitsplatzgestaltung/Gefährdungsbeurteilung
• Reduction of annual leave during parental leave is lawfull (GE)
• The right to object against a transfer in case of incorrect information is not unlimited (GE)
• Uniform minimum body height standards in the police service do not constitute indirect gender discrimination on grounds of sex (DE)
• No reduction of vacation pay for already accrued vacation entitlement in the case of a reduction of weekly working hours later on (GE)
• Meeting the qualification requirements for a job is not a prerequisite for an applicant to be entitled to damages on grounds of discrimination (GE)
• Befristung wegen vorübergehenden Bedarfs, BAG, Urteil vom 27. Juli 2016 - 7 AZR 545/14
• Urlaubsgewährung bei Beschäftigungsverbot, BAG, Urteil vom 9. August 2016 - 9 AZR 575/15
• Special protection for disabled employees against termination of employment – international aspects (GE)
• Unwissenheit schützt vor Strafe nicht: Was Führungskräfte und Organe über Haftungsrisiken im Unternehmen wissen sollten