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German Employment Law Fall 2022 Update: Bonuses, COVID-19, and Annual Leave Entitlements

​​​​​​​This fall and winter season, employers in Germany have several developments in German employment law to put on their radars, including optional bonus pay due to the spike in energy costs; workplace safety and health...more

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European Court of Justice Finds That There Is Not an Automatic Start of the Limitation Periods for Paid Annual Leave Days

Paid annual leave days in Germany have been the subject of several recent decisions by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), with the Luxembourg-based judges regularly opposing previous case law of the Federal Labor Court...more

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German Federal Labor Court Rules Limitation Periods in Employment Contracts That Do Not Explicitly Exclude the Minimum Wage Are...

The questions of whether limitation periods in employment contracts must expressly exclude claims to the statutory minimum wage and whether limitation/forfeiture clauses in employment contracts without such an exception are...more

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Revision of limitation periods in future employment contracts required: Amendment of sec. 309 no. 13 German Civil Code (BGB)

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As of October 1, 2016 employment contracts may only require text form, not the more formal written form, for all notices or statements issued by employees. Text form is met e.g. by an email. Any clause in an employment...more

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