OUR CONSULTING SERVICES
Whether daily business or complex restructuring, whether private company or public sector – you can be sure of our fast and precise service. As simple as possible, as complex as necessary. Always creative and with vision.
HOW CAN WE SUPPORT YOU?
General employment law support
- Individual and collective labour law in daily business
- Drafting of employment contracts
- Drafting of service contracts and contracts for executives and board
- Support of separation processes
- Termination of employment relationships, termination rights
- Termination agreements
- Training in labour law and data protection
- Litigation in all instances
Design of working conditions
- Flexible working time models, shift models
- Modern variable compensation systems, target agreements
- Special payments, bonus systems, gratuities, commissions etc.
- Partial retirement models
- Company pension, deferred compensation
- Operational Benefits
- Company cars, stock option plans, retention programs
- Health management, occupational integration management
- Mobile working, home office, teleworking
- Short-time work
- Use of IT, e-mail, Internet, mobile phone, social media, etc.
Corporate transactions and restructuring
- Support at operational, company and group level
- Support of business transfers, transformations, acquisitions
- Attendance of personnel reduction measures, closures, mass dismissals
- Negotiations with works or staff councils and trade unions
- Reconciliation of interests and social plan negotiations
- Due Diligence under labour law
- Individual labour law implementation
Works constitution
- Support in dealing with works and staff councils
- Structuring of the duties of co-determination, information and participation at company level
- Negotiation with works and staff councils
- Creation and negotiation of works-agreements
- Conciliation committee proceedings
- Design of works council structures
- Design of work regulations and work guidelines
Introduction of IT systems (ICT)
- Accompaniment of the implementation or modification of IT systems (information and communication systems), HR software under aspects of labour and data protection law
- Negotiation and creation of contracts, company agreements
Workplace safety
- Examination and evaluation of employment law issues
- Conduct of official proceedings
- Advice on preventive measures, risk assessment and liability issues
- Advice on avoiding pandemic-related employer liability
External personnel
- Personnel leasing: official approval, contracts, alternatives
- Temporary employees/Personnel leasing: deployment, coordination with works and staff councils, contracts
- Creation of contracts, contracts with freelancers, interim management
Data protection
- Accompanying the selection, introduction or modification of information and communication systems (ICT) and HR software in terms of labour and data protection law
- Negotiation and drafting of contracts and works-agreements
- Design and implementation of relevant user agreements and policies (e.g. IT, social media)
- Data protection issues in the use of cloud systems
- Data protection issues in M&A transactions, transformations, transfers of undertakings and outsourcing
- Creation of contracts for the processing of personal data within the Group and with third parties within and outside the European Union
- Preparation of all documents required under the GDPR / Federal Data Protection Act
- Taking over the role of Data Privacy Officer (DPO)
Compliance and anti-discrimination
- Labour law implementation of compliance structures, guidelines and policies
- Preparation of compliance and ethics guidelines under labor law
- Audits in data protection (also group-wide) and pandemic-related occupational safety standards
- Concepts for avoiding the liability of managing directors and board members in the event of compliance violations, including advice on the use of what is known as D&O insurance policies
- Internal and external investigations into criminal offences and competition violations against the employer
- Anti-discrimination advice
Collective bargaining law and industrial action
- Collective agreement negotiations with trade unions
- Company specific bargaining agreements, restructuring agreements, social bargaining agreements, tariff changes
- Litigation
- 24 h emergency telephone in case of industrial action
International activities
- International labour law
- Assignment and contracts for expats
- Right of residence, work permit, personal assistance with the application
Social Security law for companies
- Advice on social security obligation and exemption of jobs, including conducting status determination procedures
- Consulting (national and international), preparation of draft contracts
- Advice on bogus self-employment, preparation of draft contracts
- Advice on unemployment benefit and short-term working allowance
- Social security law advice on personnel management measures (outplacement, volunteer programmes, transfer companies, social plans)
- Representation at public authorities and social law courts, repayment assessment due to unlawfully paid short-time work compensation
STRATEGIC PARTNER.
By the way, our cooperation with fellaws consult also stands for the mentioned foresight: we link our disciplines with change, communication and HR. Ideally from the very beginning.
Integrated, tangible and smart
