Common legal errors in employment law

Avoid costly miscalculations

This training is held in German.
Legal errors cost money! It is important to avoid misjudgments in employment law and to gain security and competence. Do you know all the legal regulations and do you always know what is legally permitted? Check your knowledge of employment law, your previous knowledge and assumptions. This training specifically explains the typical errors and provides practical solutions. Are you still mistaken or do you already know?

Contents

Fundamentals

  • Always up to date - current case law.
  • Avoiding errors, right to ask questions and AGG.
  • Costs in the event of proceedings.

Employment contracts

  • Do applicants bear the travel costs to the interview?
  • Do contracts have to be concluded in writing?
  • Are mini-jobs and probationary periods considered proper employment relationships?
  • Exclusion periods in the employment contract.
  • Duty of confidentiality.

Working hours

  • Trust-based working hours.
  • Working hours of managers.
  • Arrangement and payment of overtime.
  • Working time over 10 hours, break regulation.

Operational exercise

  • Claims and payment.
  • Company agreement.
  • Common law and termination.

Right of direction

  • Location and activity.
  • The right to issue instructions and its limits.

Vacation rights and parental leave

  • Vacation pay and vacation pay.
  • Does the employer have to pay out unused vacation days?
  • Vacation entitlement during illness.
  • Part-time employment and vacation entitlement.
  • Right to vacation during leave of absence?

Warning and termination

  • Number of warnings before termination?
  • So-called petty offenses.
  • Liability and data privacy.
  • Reasons for termination and notice periods.
  • Cancellation agreement.
  • Entitlement to severance pay?
  • Testimonials must be positively worded.

Time limit

  • Admissibility of the time limit.
  • Multiple fixed-term contracts: Is it over after two years?

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

You will learn,

  • what you can do and what is permitted by law,
  • how you can use your legal options to your advantage,
  • how you can effectively protect yourself from labor law disputes.

Methods

participants receive comprehensive scripts with teaching texts, cases, checklists, work aids, sample formulations and current case law. Case/best-practice examples and exercises.

Recommended for

(Junior) managers, staff councils, works council members and decision makers as well as specialists.

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