Labour Law
The handling of labour law-related issues requires a high professional specialisation and a sensible approach to the matter. National as well as international clients therefore rely on our comprehensive experience in this field. They profit from the personal engagement of our Competence Team and the direct integration of the respectively competent partner.
Depel Labour Law Insolvency Law advises and represents both private and public employers in all fields of individual and collective labour law. Among our clients are executives, senior employees, managers, and board members.
By way of proactive advice, we attempt to identify and thereby eliminate potential for conflict in advance. Depel Labour Law Insolvency Law assumes the comprehensive drafting of the agreements between employers and employees, further, the termination of the agreements including the potentially necessary dispute resolution. Our consultation is intended both for companies and top executives – for example, in the drafting and negotiation of dissolution agreements.
Workers’ councils, work councils & labour unions
Depel Labour Law Insolvency Law supports domestic and foreign companies in the daily interaction with workers’ councils and employee committees as well as in the regulation of labour law-related issues in recruitments. We negotiate operating agreements and wage agreements for our clients, we provide for supportive assistance in industrial dispute situations, and we assert interests in legal disputes. We can relate to ample experience in the field of company co-determination.
Restructuring & reorganisation
When changes are due in the company, Depel Labour Law Insolvency Law offers comprehensive advice in company transformations, business transfers, company closures, and in cases of personnel reductions. Our lawyers assume the negotiations with workers’ councils and trade unions, inter alia in the negotiation of reconciliations of interests as well as social compensation plans. Characterising in our work is profound expertise – including exceptional cases. In this way, we find solutions even in particularly complicated labour law-related issues.
Working conditions
Nowadays, the challenges of labour law extend far beyond employment protection legislation, industrial constitution law, or also collective bargaining law. In many cases, we advise clients in the introduction of new remuneration or goal agreement system. The flexibilisation of working hours or the development of new motivation approaches constitute further operational fields we take care of. Depel Labour Law Insolvency Law stands for individual, solution-oriented legal advice – including tangible answers to complex questions relating to labour law.
Compliance
The General Act on Equal Treatment (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (AGG)) obliges employers to take appropriate measures to protect employees from discrimination. Employers can only avoid claims for compensation when they can provide evidence of associated protections. This already requires a “small” compliance system.
Our advice is to establish such an introductory system and to, at the same time, use it for further compliance requirements, for example for the review of the compliance with working time directives and occupational safety regulations, furthermore, for the establishment of directives relating to the acceptance of gifts, the correct conduct in business relations, the demeanour of superordinates vis a vis subordinates, and also the employees among each other.
With the aid of whistleblower systems, an outlet capable of rapidly and sustainably counteracting undesirable developments can be created, particularly in the field of labour law. For example, the acceptance of distinguishably exaggerated gifts, mobbing and bossing, incorrect claims for travel expenses, cases of discrimination, or also sexual harassment may be reported.