Employment Law

Employment law is a core competence at BREHM & v. MOERS. Our clients include national and international companies, executive boards, managing directors, supervisory boards, employees and works councils. We advise on the entire range of individual and collective employment law. Additionally, we regularly represent clients at all labour and state labour courts as well as the Federal Labour Court.

Our industry expertise includes (but is not limited to) the following branches:

• Film and TV productions
• IT and gaming industry 
• Print and online media, publishing houses
• Advertising and event agencies
• Food industry
• Hospital and care industry
• Pharmaceutical industry
• Trade credit, bank insurance
• Real estate
• Metal and rubber industry

Particular focus is laid on media employment law, i.e. advice in the areas of employment law that are particularly relevant for media companies, but also start-ups.

We advise on corporate transactions and on the employment law implementation of compliance.

Furthermore, Brehm & v. Moers has a network of foreign law firms with whom we have cooperated successfully for many years.
 

Individual employment law

We advise, train and litigate in the entire range of individual employment law:

• Drafting of employment contracts / fixed-term contracts / company car regulations
• Development of employment structures in the strategically oriented growth of a company
• Advice and litigation in the case of dismissals / actions for protection against dismissal
• Special protection against dismissal
• Discrimination protection
• Advice on job cuts, mass redundancies and social plans
• Support in the restructuring process, outsourcing, transfer of operations, operational changes
• Labor law due diligence and advice on transfer measures
• Employee leasing
• Working time law
• Secondment of employees; secondment of employees abroad - deployment of foreign employees in Germany
• Employee invention law
• Status proceedings - differentiation between employees and self-employed persons
   

Service contract law

We advise, train and litigate in service contract law:

• Drafting and negotiation of executive and managing director service contracts
• Advice and assistance in the termination of these contracts
• Representation of and against board members and managing directors before the ordinary courts of law
• Drafting and negotiating contracts for and with freelancers/freelancers
   

Collective labor law and collective bargaining law

We advise, train and litigate in the whole range of collective labor law and collective bargaining law:

• Works constitution law - co-determination of the works council
• Co-determination in the tendency company
• Economic committee
• Drafting and negotiating works agreements, including in the areas of working time and remuneration models,
• operational changes, restructuring, outsourcing (social plan and reconciliation of interests),
• Data and IT security, video and camera surveillance and company pension schemes
• Advice in and design of conciliation committees
• Conducting and contesting works council elections
• Co-determination law (MitbestG, DrittelbG)

In addition, we advise, train and litigate in collective bargaining and strike law:

• Drafting and negotiating (in-house) collective bargaining agreements
• Reference to collective bargaining agreements
• Advice before and during strikes