Category: Arbeitsrecht

A ruling by the Düsseldorf Higher Labor Court has recently been approved for appeal due to the fundamental importance of the legal issue. The appeal is pending before the BAG under case no. 9 AZR 312/20. The course of action Anyone wishing to reduce their working hours regulated in their employment contract from full-time to part-time must notify their employer in writing in accordance with Section 8 of the Part-Time and Fixed-Term Employment Act (TzBfG).

In the coalition agreement, the governing coalition agreed to promote mobile working. This fulfills an obligation from an EU directive, which must be implemented by 2022. A draft bill from the SPD-led Ministry of Labor that has now been submitted to the Chancellery was stopped without further ado. The discussion is over - if only because of the obligation to implement the EU directive

The Skilled Immigration Act expands the framework for the immigration of qualified skilled workers from countries outside the EU to Germany. In future, skilled workers with vocational, non-academic training will be able to immigrate to Germany more easily for work purposes. Existing regulations for skilled workers with a university degree will be continued and in some cases further facilitated, but will not change fundamentally. Important for employers who employ foreign skilled workers,