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Not every injury during sport is automatically an accident at work. The decisive factor is whether there is a direct connection to the occupational activity. However, a recent ruling by the Hessian State Social Court shows that a sports accident can also be recognized as an accident at work under certain conditions - even in the case of an underage junior athlete. The case in question: soccer injury at a youth training center In the case decided by the

From June 2026, a new era in labor law will begin in Germany: The EU Pay Transparency Directive obliges companies to be significantly more open about salaries. The aim is to combat wage discrimination and finally enforce equal pay for equal work or work of equal value. For employees, this means above all more rights, better insights and greater opportunities to assert their claims.

The ECJ had to clarify the consequences of an employer making redundancies as part of a collective redundancy without first submitting the legally required collective redundancy notification to the competent authority (in Germany, typically the employment agency). The background to this is the EU Collective Redundancies Directive 98/59/EC, which is intended to ensure that authorities and employee representatives are involved in good time in order to mitigate the consequences and

At the turn of 2026, several important changes to employment law came into force that directly affect both employers and employees. The focus is on higher wages, new tax incentives for older employees, additional information obligations and European regulations on pay transparency. The following overview shows the key changes and briefly explains what they mean in practice. Table of contents: Minimum wage