Legal Services

• Planning and implementation of structural changes and restructuring measures including transfers of undertakings (e.g. outsourcing); providing advice and support in negotiations regarding the balancing of interests and employee compensation in the event of changes in business operations, including representation in proceedings before mediation boards
• Drafting and negotiating (inhouse) wage agreements and financial rescue agreements as part of collectively agreed company rescue plans
• Advising on employment law issues regarding the implementation of such measures and legal representation of the employer
• Due diligence and risk analysis from an employment law perspective for transactional sale or purchase negotiations, drafting employment law provisions in transactional Agreements

• Implementing business strategies in terms of the law on works councils / employee representation, providing advice and support on issues of co-determination, providing advice and support in the conclusion of works agreements regarding working time, compensation models, IT security etc., representation before mediation boards and in resolution proceedings
• Providing advice and support on the election of employee representatives onto the supervisory board

Employment relationships:

• Advising on legally watertight employment contracts including provisions on variable compensation models and flexible working hours, employee participation programs, company retirement provisions and cross-border employee assignments
• Providing advice and support in the implementation of the employment relationship, including mobile working, structuring home working, managing reintegrations into the workplace. 
• Providing advice and support in the termination of employment relationships, drafting termination and severance agreements as well as partial retirement models, transfer measures, representation in litigation throughout Germany 

Board members:

• Drafting and negotiating service agreements for chief executives and board members, providing advice and support regarding the termination of service agreements 

Freelancers:

• Advising and structuring alternative working arrangements on the basis of contracts for services or contracts for the production of a work, drafting framework contracts for freelancers, consultants, interim managers, contracts for the supply of temporary employees

• “Arbeit 4.0” discussions on the future of work 
• Use of external personnel and agile working models (SCRUM) 
• Remote work & working from home

• Salary sacrifice
• Structuring of pension schemes
• Pension and providence funds
• Pension schemes for shareholding directors