Stellungnahme zum Fachkräftemangel (September 2010)

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Positionspapier "Zehn Thesen zum Arbeitnehmerdatenschutz" (Mai 2010)

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Positionspapier zum Arbeitsmarkt 2010 (November 2009)

10 Punkte für einen beschäftigungsfreundlichen Arbeitsmarkt

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 DownloadEnglish (Position Paper on the Labor Market. Ten Requests for an Employment-Friendly Labor Market)

Joint Committee Meeting am 7. Dezember 2011, Frankfurt am Main

Das AmCham Germany Corporate & Business Law Committee lädt gemeinsam mit dem Social & Labor Affairs Committee zu folgender Sitzung ein:

Thema: Corporate Governance

• Frauenquote
• Rechtsfolgen fehlerhafter Entsprechenserklärungen
• Wechsel vom Vorstand in den Aufsichtsrat

Referent: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Marsch-Barner

Ort: Linklaters LLP, Mainzer Landstr. 16, 60325 Frankfurt, Konferenzetage 8. Stock

Das Antwortfax können Sie hier herunterlanden: Download

Committee Meeting am 31. Mai 2011, Frankfurt am Main

Thema: Matrixstrukturen und Austausch zum Fachkräftemangel

Referenten:

• Dr. Gerlind Wisskirchen, Rechtsanwältin/Fachanwältin für Arbeitsrecht, CMS Hasche Sigle
• Sebastian Wolf, Director HR Projects Europe Africa Middle East Region, Worldwide Human Resources - Manager & Operational Support, Pfizer Deutschland GmbH
• Sophia von Rundstedt, Geschäftsführende Gesellschafterin, v. Rundstedt & Partner GmbH

Committee Meeting am 08. November 2010, Berlin

Thema: Aktuelle Entwicklungen - Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Arbeitsrecht

Referenten: Karl Schiewerling (CDU/CSU Fraktion), Dr. Heinrich Kolb (FDP Fraktion)

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Committee Meeting am 30. März 2010, Frankfurt am Main

Thema: Arbeitnehmerdatenschutz

Diskussionspartner: Renate Hillenbrand-Beck, Dezernatsleitung, Regierungspräsidium Darmstadt und Sylvia Schenk, Vorsitzende Transparency International Deutschland

Stellungnahme zum Arbeitnehmerdatenschutz

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Committee Meeting with Dr. Heinrich L. Kolb, MdB, on June 29, 2009

The Committee convened in order to present and discuss its new position statement on labor law and labor market issues 2009.

 Committee Meeting Teilnehmer

Committee Meeting with Thomas Mann, MdEP, on February 6, 2009

Following the meeting on February 6, 2009, the Committee decided to update its position paper including the following topics:

• Kündigungsschutz- Dismissal Protection
• Unternehmensmitbestimmung - Corporate Codetermination
• Betriebsverfassungsrecht - Works Constitution Law
• Tarifvertragsrech - Collective Bargaining Agreements Law
• Antidiskriminierungsrecht - Laws governing non-discrimination
• Arbeitsvertragsgesetzbuch  - Employment Agreements Act
• Arbeitszeitrichtlinie - Working Time Directive
• Mindestlohn - Mininum Wages
• Zuwanderung und Entsendung von Arbeitnehmern -
  Immigration and Posting of Workers
• Arbeitnehmerdatenschutz - Data protection

Neuauflage Sozial- und Arbeitsrecht vom Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS), Juli 2011

Labor Law Navigator (Deutsches Arbeitsrecht auf Englisch)

The German Labor Law Navigator is an information portal from Lovells that assists US companies located in Germany. The German Labor Law Navigator aids companies by providing them with an abridged English versions of German labor law. The information portal is designed to help US companies take a preliminary view on the steps they will need to manage business decisions in Germany with the changeable and at times difficult to understand framework of German employment law.

To learn more about this information service, please click here for further information.

Working in Germany as an American - Work permits and more

Click here to read the  full article (in English) by Jörg Rehder, Jones Day, which deals with some of the hurdles (often seen as bureaucratic) that the non-German employee will face in order to work in Germany.  (Article in German)

Key Aspects of German Employment and Labour Law

This publication gives an overview of all key aspects of German labour and employment law as well as adjoining fields. Please click  here to read more. Editors are Jens Kirchner, Pascal R. Kremp, and Michale Magotsch. Please contact  Dr. Jens Kirchner for more.

DLA Piper UK LLP
Dr. Jens Kirchner
Partner
Westhafenplatz 1
60327 Frankfurt/M

European HR Management in Troubled Times: Cutting Down Labor Costs in Germany 

Fueled by the current historic economic crisis and alarmist predictions for 2009, companies around the globe are looking for possibilities to cut costs. HR managers are being confronted with managements’ demands for proposals to reduce labor costs or adapt capacities both on national and international scales, in order to prepare their respective companies for the challenges of the rough seas of global recession. To accomplish these goals in Germany, a whole range of instruments - including cutting down direct personnel costs, headcount reductions and more flexible instruments - are at the HR management’s disposal. Click here for  full report published by Mayer Brown LLP

  Modernising Europe's labour markets

  Flexicurity - greater security thorugh better employment

An initiative by the employers' and business federations in Denmark, Germany, Portugal and Slovenian
Read German version   here

  Human rights and multinational enterprises. Possibilities and limist of what business can do

Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA)
Read German version   here

Alternative mit Zukunft:  Deutsche Juristen bei US Unternehmen

azur, Karrieremagazin für junge Juristen, Mai 2006
Article interviews Committee Chair Gert Schröder (UPS)

Nastassja Wohnhas
Specialist, Government & Press Relations
T +49 69 929104-41
F +49 69 929104-11
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