Services
Advisory and Representation in Employment Law
HALO Employment Law provides clear, practical legal advice and customized solutions for businesses. With deep expertise across all key areas of employment law, we offer reliable support through every legal challenge and proceeding.
- Drafting, updating, and reviewing employment contracts – including termination of employment.
- Preparing employment law related agreements (e.g. compensation structures, variable remuneration models, telework/home office, mobile working, non-compete clauses, incentives, stock options, secondments or leasing of employees).
- Advising on all legal matters during ongoing employment relationships (e.g. equal treatment, minimum wage, employee data protection, notice of change, warnings, disability, maternity leave, parental leave, caregiver leave, continued remuneration, part-time work, phased retirement).
- Legal advice and support regarding termination of employment relationships (including representation before courts and authorities).
- Corporate and employment law advice and representation for managing directors, executive board members, and senior executives in their dealings with the company—from contract drafting until termination.
- Planning and implementation of workforce reduction measures
- Advising on and evaluating alternatives to staff cuts
- Negotiating with works councils and trade unions
- Advising on the preparation and negotiation of social plans
- Redesign of personnel and organizational structures
- Transfer and acquisition of businesses or business units
- Outsourcing of business departments
- Application of collective bargaining agreements, changes of collective bargaining agreement, job classification procedures
- Drafting, conclusion, and review of works agreements
- Corporate co-determination
- Advising and representing companies in matters of works constitution law
- Supporting companies in the establishment of a works council iZm der Errichtung eines Betriebsrats
- Drafting and updating works agreements and collective bargaining agreements
- Advising companies iZm on cases of discrimination or sexual harassment in the workplace
- Representation before the Equal Treatment Commission
- Support and implementation of internal investigations and interviews
- Development of internal policies, prevention measures, and monitoring mechanisms
- Review of existing pension arrangements
- Advice on unilateral design options and subsequent modifications of pension schemes
- Legal representation in disputes regarding pension entitlements
- Employment-related litigation
- Representation before labor and social courts
- Representation before authorities and conciliation boards
- Representation in administrative penalty proceedings (wage and social dumping, maximum working hours, employment of foreign nationals)
- Support in implementing internal control systems
- Employee protection
- Employment of foreign nationals
- Appointment of responsible representatives
- Avoidance of disguised temporary employment and/or false self-employment
- Support during GPLB-audits
- Issues related to potential underpayment and reclassification
- Optimization and implementation of working time models (flextime, shift schedules, averaging schemes)
- Drafting of works agreements
- All-in and flextime agreements
- Advice on avoiding administrative penalty proceedingsLSD-BG)
- Drafting and reviewing of policies and consent declarations
- Advising on all legal matters related to employee data protection
- Advising on issues concerning employee data and works council involvement
- Analysis of employment contracts and internal policies
- Risk identification and assessment
- Non-solicitation agreements
- Post-contractual non-compete clauses
- Confidentiality obligations
- Protection of intellectual property
- Analysis of existing reporting channels
- Review and drafting of works agreements
- Employee training
- Advice on handling whistleblowers
- Conducting and supporting internal investigations and subsequent employment law actions
- Employment of foreign nationals
- Employee postings
- Remote working from abroad
- Remote working, telework, and mobile working
- Drafting of telework agreements, works agreements, and internal policies
- Flexible working time models (flextime, trust-based working hours)
- Working time compliance (breaks, maximum working hours, rest periods, Sunday work restrictions, surcharges)
- Workation
- Cross-border working
- Desk sharing
- New forms of compensation (employee participation programs)
- Training sessions for executives
- In-house seminars