Labour and Employment Compliance in Germany, 5th Edition

Chapter 1. Legal Framework: Employment Laws

Chapter 2. Contracts of Employment

Chapter 3. Recruiting, Interviewing, Screening and Hiring Employees

Chapter 4. Managing Performance/Conduct

Chapter 5. Termination of Employees For Performance or Disciplinary Reasons

Chapter 6. Layoffs, Reductions in Force, and/or Redundancies as a Result of Job Eliminations or Other Restructuring

Chapter 7. Labour and Employment Law Rami.cations Upon Acquisition or Sale of a Business

Chapter 8. Use of Alternative Workforces: independent Contractors, Contract Employees, and Temporary or Leased Workers

Chapter 9. Obligation to Bargain Collectively: Employees’ Right to Strike and a Company’s Right to Continue Business Operations

Chapter 10. Working Conditions: Hours of Work and Payment of Wages: By Statute or Collective Agreements

Chapter 11. Other Working Conditions and Benefits: By Statute, Collective Agreements, or Company Policy

Chapter 12. Workers’ Compensation

Chapter 13. Company’s Obligation to Provide Safe and Healthy Workplace

Chapter 14. Immigration, Secondment and Foreign Assignment

Chapter 15. Restrictive Covenants and Protection of Trade Secrets and Confidential Information

Chapter 17. Prohibition of Discrimination in the Workplace

Chapter 18. Smoking in the Workplace

Chapter 20. AIDS, HIV, SARS, Blood Borne Pathogens

Chapter 22. Privacy, Technology and Transfer of Personal Data

Chapter 23. Workplace Investigations for Complaints of Discrimination, Harassment, Fraud, Theft and Whistleblowing

Chapter 24. Affirmative Action/Non-Discrimination Requirements

Chapter 25. Resolution of Labour, Discrimination and Employment Disputes: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation and Conciliation

Chapter 26. Employer Recordkeeping, Data Protection and Employee Access to Personnel Files and Records

Chapter 27. Required Notices and Postings