Employment Law
Protection against dismissal, termination agreements, works constitution and collective bargaining issues - for employers, employees and executives.
What we do
We advise and represent businesses and employees throughout Germany, in and out of court, in all matters of individual and collective employment law.
In individual employment law, we draft and negotiate employment contracts and termination agreements for our clients and represent them in court proceedings. We advise our clients on everything from A to Z, from formal warnings to employment references.
Advising and representing management board members, managing directors and senior executives on the establishment and termination of their employment relationships is another focus of our work.
In collective employment law, we advise businesses on planning and implementing restructuring and workforce adjustment measures and on disputes concerning the works council's co-determination rights.
We run practical employment law training for businesses and their executives.
Dismissals and protection against dismissal
- Individual and comprehensive legal advice, from the initial assessment to achieving your objective
- Resolute pursuit of your interests, out of court and in court
- Reaching negotiated solutions
- Legally sound drafting and recording of all terms of separation
- Taking the psychological and emotional dimension into account
Specialist employment law topics
- Disruptions in an ongoing employment relationship
- Working time and working time models
- Law on severely disabled persons
- Maternity protection and parental leave
- Non-compete clauses
- Formal warnings
- Temporary agency work
- Employee inventions
- Data protection
- General Equal Treatment Act (AGG)
- Compliance
- Employment references
Works constitution, public-sector staff representation and collective bargaining law
- Industrial action, strikes and lockouts
- Workplace co-determination
- Works agreements and public-sector service agreements (Dienstvereinbarungen)
- Company-level collective agreements
- Reconciliation of interests (Interessenausgleich) and social plans
- Leaving or switching employers' associations and membership without collective bargaining coverage (OT-Mitgliedschaft)
Restructuring and transaction-related employment law
- Transfer companies (Beschäftigungsgesellschaften)
- Transfers of undertakings
- Collective redundancies
- Outsourcing
- Organisational changes
Management board members, managing directors and executives
- Contract drafting, contract review and contract optimisation
- Support when parting ways and throughout the separation process
- Termination agreements
- Legal, strategic and tactical responses to disruptions in the contractual relationship
- Rules of procedure
- Liability and D&O insurance
- Remuneration, variable remuneration and target agreements
- Representation in proceedings before all labour courts
- Representation in proceedings before the civil courts and in arbitration
- Cooperation with experienced HR and outplacement consultants
Contract check for employment and service contracts
- Contract drafting
- Contract review
- Contract optimisation
- Updating contracts in line with the latest case law
- Advice on safeguarding your interests when concluding a contract
- Company car agreements
- Variable remuneration: bonus, profit share (Tantieme), incentives, commission
- Development of tailored remuneration models
- Target agreements
Employment reference check
- Drafting, review and optimisation of employment references
- Complete identification and description of duties and responsibilities
- Individual drafting of the commendation
- Careful identification of the criteria relevant to the assessment
- Inclusion of expressions of appreciation free of stock phrases
- Credibility check of the reference
- Optimal layout for the best possible readability
Articles (in German)
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Mindestlohn 2026 und Minijob-Grenze
Zum 1. Januar 2026 steigt der gesetzliche Mindestlohn auf 13,90 Euro brutto je Stunde und erhöht sich 2027 weiter.
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- Address
- PJM Partner
Rathausstraße 13
20095 Hamburg - Phone
- +49 40 89 00 98 - 0
- kanzlei@pjm-partner.de