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There is no statutory holiday entitlement during unpaid special leave
GenerallyFor years there seemed to be only one direction in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice in particular regarding holiday law. Employees won in rows, sometimes contrary to clear national laws (but recognized as being contrary to European law)...
Update on vacation rights: Employers must take action in the future!
GenerallyWe already reported in our article from December 3rd, 2018 that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided in November 2018 on the forfeiture of vacation entitlements. Three months after the ECJ ruling, the Federal Labor Court...
FOCUS 2019: WSK is top business law firm 2019 in employment law
AwardsFOCUS Magazine has named the law firm WSK as the top business law firm 2019 in Germany, with a special recommendation in the area of labor law. According to Focus, WSK was recommended disproportionately often by colleagues. For…
FOCUS 2019: WSK is the top law firm in 2019 in employment law
GenerallyFOCUS magazine has named WSK as the top business law firm in Germany in 2019, with special recommendation in the area of employment law. According to Focus, WSK was recommended disproportionately often by colleagues. For the ranking, the data...
Effects of the recognition of the third gender in labor law
GenerallyIn December 2018, the Bundestag implemented the requirements of the Federal Constitutional Court and recognized the third gender in addition to the female and male genders. Now the affected people have which sexual characteristics...
Overtime bonuses for part-time workers – BAG now on a uniform basis
GenerallyWith the current ruling of December 19, 2018, the 10th Senate of the BAG made a welcome clarification for part-time employees. Part-time employees may not be exempt from surcharges for overtime on the grounds that...
The ECJ and German holiday law
PressWith two recent decisions from November 6th, 2018, the European Court of Justice is bringing a breath of fresh air into German vacation law. In the first legal dispute (C-619/16) that the ECJ had to decide, a legal trainee who was…
Prof. Dr. habil. Dirk Selzer strengthens the WSK team
GenerallyWe are pleased to have Prof. Dr. habil. We welcome Dirk Selzer as an external consultant (Of Counsel) to our WSK team from November 2018. Prof. Selzer is a professor of law with a focus on labor law at the University…
According to the 2018 JUVE ranking, WSK is once again one of the best German employment law firms
AwardsIn the newly published JUVE Handbook 2018/2019, the law firm WOLFF SCHULTZE KIEFERLE is once again listed as one of the best commercial law firms for employment law in Germany. We are pleased that this time we even made it into the national JUVE…
Flat rate for late payments? – Not in labor law!
GenerallyOnly a few years ago the new Section 288 Paragraph 5 BGB was introduced. The regulation stipulates that the debtor of a payment claim - unless he is a consumer - should be obliged to pay a lump sum of €...
FOCUS Lawyers List 2018: WSK is once again one of Germany's top lawyers
AwardsThe Hamburg statistics company Statista has once again identified the best lawyers in the field of labor law for the current FOCUS lawyer list 2018 in FOCUS SPEZIAL ("Germany's top lawyers"). The lawyers who are in the FOCUS lawyer list…
Companies must check exclusion periods! Claims to the statutory minimum wage must be explicitly excluded!
GenerallyA current ruling by the Federal Labor Court dated September 18, 2018 (ref.: 9 AZR 162/18) has significant labor law consequences for companies. Almost all employment contract templates that companies use today contain so-called exclusion periods.…
