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During an agreed probationary period of a maximum of six months, the employment relationship can be terminated by the employer and employee without further agreement. A notice period of two weeks must be observed. However, this notice period only applies if the arrangement is clearly regulated in the employment contract. In the case of a personnel manager, this was not the case, as the Thuringia Regional Labor Court found (LAG

If an employee falls on the way to a drinks or snack vending machine at work, this must be recognized as an accident at work. This was recently decided by the State Social Court in Hesse in the case of an administrative employee of the tax office (judgment of 07.02.2023/ Ref. L 3 U 202/21). The journey to a food vending machine is work-related and covered by statutory accident insurance. If the route

In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Justice has decided that daily and weekly rest periods are two autonomous rights of employees such as train drivers or truck drivers. A train driver from Hungary had not received any rest periods before and after his vacation and filed a complaint against this. The weekly and daily rest periods of employees who, for example, work as