In addition to the employment contract, laws, collective bargaining agreements and company agreements form the legal framework of the employment relationship. The Works Constitution Act entrusts the works council with the task of ensuring that the company complies with all existing standards in favour of employees. To fulfil this task, works councils must competently advise employees and consider the various provisions of collective and individual labour law. This seminar focuses on central issues that arise in the course of an existing employment relationship, such as regulations on working hours and vacation. The seminar covers the necessary basic knowledge of labour law.

Themenplan:

• Working hours: legal basis, particularly the Working Hours Act, collective bargaining agreement, works agreement, employment contract, overtime
• Leave: legal basis, in particular the Federal Leave Act, requirements for granting leave, expiry regulations, new ECJ case law, training leave Special
• remuneration: Bonus, premium, performance bonus, target agreement, profit sharing
• Remuneration without work performance: legal basis, public holidays, illness, vacation, maternity protection, especially economic and operational risk
• Special groups: Maternity protection, parental leave/part-time parental leave, disabled people, youth employment protection
• Part-time employment relationship
• Enforcement of claims: preclusive periods, assertion, action for performance