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
Occupational safety
- Prüfung und Bewertung arbeitsrechtlicher Fragestellungen
- Begleitung behördlicher Verfahren
- Beratung zu präventiven Maßnahmen, Gefährdungsbeurteilung und Haftung bei Pflichtverletzungen
- Beratung zur Vermeidung pandemiebedingter Arbeitgeberhaftung
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
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fellaws
Your Partner for Employment Law and Data Protection
Meinekestraße 27
10719 Berlin
