Human Resources
Business decisions often have an impact on employment relationships. Some labour law provisions restrict employers, while others open up opportunities. This makes competent advice on labour law so important. Together with you, we develop pragmatic and economically sensible solutions. We develop strategies to avoid conflicts and settle disputes quickly and quietly. If you are challenged to stand your ground in court, we are competently and powerfully at your side.
The experts of the Human Resources practice group advise employers, executives and board members on all questions of individual and collective labour law. From working contracts to collective agreements; from challenging special issues to day-to-day business. We act with legal expertise and understand how businesses operate.
We have particular expertise in ecclesiastical labour law. Employment relationships within the Church are subject to specific rules that differ fundamentally from secular labour law. These rules cover everything from the application of ecclesiastical employment contract regulations (e.g. KAVO and AVR), to the particularities of the Third Way and staff representation law (MAVO and MVG-EKD), as well as proceedings before ecclesiastical courts. We have many years of experience advising and representing church organisations, associations, and supra-diocesan institutions nationwide at all levels of church ownership.
You score as an attractive employer. We back you up.
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Third-party recruitment
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganisation
- Works council, economic committee, staff council, employee representation, representation of the severely disabled
- Executive board & directors' matters, senior executives
- Ecclesiastical labour law (KAVO, AVR, MAVO, MVG-EKD)
- Company pension scheme
- Social security law
- International labour law
- Litigation & arbitration