Labor matters

An employee option plan — the right to buy shares in the company at a predetermined price — motivates employees and binds them to the company. It can...

In a business acquisition, as a buyer, you can become responsible for the WGA benefits of (former) employees of the acquired company for up to ten years — even for people who at the moment...

Protection against dismissal means that certain employees cannot simply be dismissed: there is a prohibition on termination during illness, pregnancy, and membership of the Works Council, among others, and dismissal on discriminatory grounds is always prohibited. Those...

A non-solicitation clause prohibits a departing employee from poaching colleagues for a new employer. The clause is not legally defined, but is sometimes viewed as a form of non-compete clause...

Green employment conditions are schemes with which you encourage and reward employees to make more sustainable choices — from an electric lease car and bicycle plan to a higher work-from-home allowance or a climate budget for...

When hiring staff, four legal questions arise most frequently: who is liable in the event of a workplace accident, who is responsible for payroll taxes, are you allowed to hire personnel from outside the EEA...

As an employer, you must continue to pay your employees' wages for the agreed hours, even if there is insufficient work or the employee is unable to... due to a cause within your sphere of risk.

Mediation is often the fastest, cheapest, and least damaging solution for a labor dispute: an independent mediator helps employer and employee reach a workable outcome together, without expensive and...

Simply no longer calling up an on-call worker does not terminate the contract. The employment agreement remains in effect, and a judge may interpret the cessation of calling up as a termination by the employer —...

An employer may prohibit the wearing of a headscarf at work, but only through a neutrality policy that covers all visible religious, political, and philosophical symbols — consistently applied and...