German Labor and Employment Law generally is intended to protect the employee.
As a consequence, human resources directors and executives need practical solutions to comply with the ever-changing legal framework Germany has created for its work force. This Hidden Secret is for them and their international businesses and German operations who want an easy-to-use-legal resource.
My Hidden Secrets: Employment Law in Germany
The following key words, important to understand the Labor and Employment Law system in Germany are explained:
A
- Advance Notice (Redundancies)
- Advertising
- Applications for Employment
B
- Background Investigations
- Benefits
C
- Care Giver Leave
- Child Labor
- Covenants Not to Compete
D
- Disability Leaves
- Discrimination
- Discrimination Claims
- Drug Testing
E
- Employee Injuries/Workers’ Compensation
- Employment Applications
- Employment References
F
- Family and other Medical Leaves
- Fingerprints
- Forms of Employment Agreements
G
- Giving Employment References
H
- Harassment
- Health & Safety
- Health Insurance
I
- Industrial Relations
L
- Lie Detector Test
M
- Meals and Rest Periods
- Medical Information
- Minimum Age
- Minimum Wage
N
- Negotiations with Works Council
- Non-solicitation of Employees and Customers
O
- Off-Duty Conduct
- Overtime Issues
P
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Parental Leave
- Payment upon Discharge or Resignation
- Personnel Records
- Personnel Records and Information
- Pregnancy Leave
- Privacy
- Public Holidays
R
- Reconciliation of Interests
- Recordkeeping
- Recruitment
- References
- Required Postings
- Required Training
S
- Searches
- Separation Agreements, Use of
- Severance Pay
- Severance Pay (Redundancies)
- Social Compensation Plan
- Social Insurance
- Social Security Numbers
- Surveillance and Monitoring
T
- Temporary Worker (Leased Employees)
- Termination Claims
- Trade Secrets
- Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE)
U
- Unemployment
- Unions
- Use of Employment Contracts
- Use of Separation Agreements
W
- Wage Payments
- Whistleblower Protection
- Workday
- Worker’s Compensation
- Work Hours
- Works Council
- Workweek
- Wrongful Termination Claims