e-Learning: German Employment Law
Seminar
Online
Beschreibung
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Kursart
Seminar
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Methodik
Online
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Beginn
nach Wahl
The newly produced e-learning programme helps foreign in-house counsels and human resources managers at international companies to understand the complex legal regulations concerning labour and employment law in Germany. You get an overview of all key aspects of German Employment Law and get an update on court decisions such as unfair dismissal, remuneration and bonus payments, minimum salary etc.
Standorte und Zeitplan
Lage
Beginn
Beginn
Meinungen
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Mehr als 50 Meinungen in den letzten 12 Monaten
Dieses Bildungszentrum ist seit 16 Mitglied auf Emagister
Themen
- Works
- ACT
- E-learning
Inhalte
- Employee - definition - facts & figures
- Labour market - social security / cost
- Types of employment
- Employee protection laws (overview)
- Freelance and (fraudulent) pseudo-freelance
- Employer - definition - facts & figures
- Labour market - types of employers
- No automatic applicability of collective bargaining agreements
- Freedom of contractPrivileges for small employers
- Privileges for foreign employers
- Trade unions & works council
- Trade unions
- Role of trade union compared to works council
- Works council
- Election of works council
- Co-determination rights of works council
- Conflict resolution
- Institutions: labour court & conciliation board
- Labour Court: procedure and facts & figures
- Conciliation board: non-public conflict resolution Module 2: Recruitment & conclusion of employment contract SUB-MODULE 1
- Hiring - principle of free choice
- Freedom of contract versus anti-discrimination laws
- Obligation to employ disabled persons?
- Obligation to contact work agency?
- Advertisement & other forms of recruitment
- Hiring - sources of information
- Interview & questionnaires - do's and don'ts
- References - importance and how to read
- External information sources
- Processing of personal data - data protection law
- Conclusion of employment contract
- Material conditions
- Formal conditions
- Engagement letter?
- Fixed-term and non-fixed-term contract
- Fixed-term with / without specific reason
- Temporary work contract
- Works council's rights related to hiring
- Obligation to inform works council on envisaged hiring
- Necessity of works council's consent to employ hired person
- Resolution of possible conflict
- Questionnaires / selection directives: need for works council's consent Module 3: General principles & employee's duties SUB-MODULE 1
- Rules governing the employment relationship
- Basis: The employment contract
- Other applicable rules
- Hierarchy of rules in the employment relationship and other principles
- Employee's duties - duty to work
- Principle: without work no remuneration
- The right person
- At the right time
- At the right placeIn the right mannerRefusal to follow directions/orders and consequences
- Employee's duties - duty to be loyal
- Safeguard employer's rights and interests
- Whistleblowing - rights and duties
- Employee's duties - duty of confidentiality
- General duty of confidentiality
- The new act for the protection of business secrets(Geschäftsgeheimnisgesetz)
- Contractual clauses
- Employee's duties - duty not to compete
- During the employment relationship
- After the end of the employment relationship
- Duty of non-solicitation
- Contractual agreements and limits
- Compensation for non-competition (Karenzentschädigung)
- Reduced employee's liability in case of breach of duty
- Light negligence
- "Medium" negligence
- Gross negligence
- Grossest negligenceIntentional breach of duty
Module 4: Employer's duties
SUB-MODULE 1
- Employer's main duties - duty to employ and to pay remuneration
- Duty to employ - main duty eual to payment, judicial control of garden leave clauses/practice
- Duty to pay remuneration - fixed remuneration, 13th salary, premiums / variable pay, statutory minimum pay, branch minimum pay, transparency of pay act (Entgelttransparenzgesetz)
- Employer's duties - work time act
- Maximum legal average work time and daily work time
- Breaks and daily time off
- Sundays and public holidays
- Record of work time
- Premiums/supplements for overtime work?
- Employer's duties - sick pay and statutory holiday pay
- Right to receive sick pay and statutory holiday pay
- Duration, conditions
- Calculation, partial re-imbursement for small employers
- No termination during illness?
- Employer's duties - paid holidayLegal minimum and practice in germany
- Calculation of payment
- Transmission to following year(s) Module 4: Employer's duties (continuation) SUB-MODULE 5
- Employer's Duties - maternity protection
- Maternity leave (beginning / end, conditions)
- Prohibitions to work during maternity
- Payment of remuneration during maternity leave
- Protection against dismissal
- Employer's duties - parental leave
- Parental leaveRequest for parental leave (conditions, timing)
- Parental money (elterngeld)
- Protection against dismissal
- Employer's duties - care leave/ family care leave
- Request for care leave / family care leave
- Paid short-term care / unpaid long-term care / part time work during family care leave
- Protection against dismissal
- Employer's duties - part time
- Conditions to ask for part time
- Conditions for refusal by employer and procedure for negotiation
- Entitlement to fixed-term part time ("Brückenteilzeit") Module 5: Termination of the employment relationship SUB-MODULE 1
- Types of end of contract
- Death of employeeExpiry of fixed-term contract
- Contract of termination
- Notice of termination by employee (resignation)
- Notice of termination by employer (dismissal)
- Legal consequences of illegal dismissal
- Formal (non-)requirements for termination
- Legal written form and reception by employee
- Non-requirements
- Material requirements (ordinary termination)
- Respect of notice period
- Prior and correct hearing of works council
- Existence of a legitimate cause for dismissal - dismissal for conduct related reasons, dismissal for reasons related to the person of employee, dismissal for operational reasons
- Material requirements (extraordinary termination)
- Prior and correct hearing of works council
- Existence of an "important cause"Two-weeks' deadline
- Special rules for mass / collective dismissal
- Obligations under "mass dismissal" procedure
- Conciliation of interests and social plan
- Special protection against dismissal
- Selected cases of special protection
- Varying form and content of special protection
- Employer's main duties - duty to employ and to pay remuneration
e-Learning: German Employment Law