Major Practice Areas


Employment Law

Mistakes in the beginning of action in employment law are usually incurable, cost money, can lead to operational unrest and, specifically in times of social media, can cause a loss of face and reputation.

 

Preventive protection of employment law interests pays off for companies as well as managers – usually already for a manageable legal effort – especially before the problem becomes uncontrollable.


If a conflict cannot be avoided, far-sighted and assertive judicial representation of interests is required.

 

Albicker Arbeitsrecht offers the right expertise for all employment law conflicts and constellations regarding company, board or managerial level, especially concerning:


  • Contract drafting (modern employment contracts, design of variable remuneration systems / matching target agreements, bonuses, gratuities, commission regulations, company car regulations, etc.);


  • Planning and implementation of restructuring and transactions (transformations, transfers of operations/ TUPE, operational changes, such as closure, relocation of operations or parts of operations, organizational changes etc.);
  • Continuous consultations for companies and entrepreneurs accompanying terminations of employments (from individual problems to operational mass layoffs regarding all types of restructuring);


  • Negotiation and drafting of termination agreements;


  • Management of pandemic-related situations under employment law, in particular short-time work, lack of work etc.;

 

  • Design of all types of effective mobile work;


  • Negotiations with supervisory boards, trade unions and works councils on all questions of co-determination, including reconciliation of interests and social plan negotiations, work agreements in and outside the conciliation committee and / or in disputes between employers and work councils;


  • Negotiating, especially restructuring of collective bargaining agreements;


  • Nationwide judicial representation of interests before all labor and regional labor courts, the Federal Labor Court and ordinary courts (with the exception of the BGH/ Federal High Court of Justice);


  • Additionally, long-term experience of the founder of Albicker Arbeitsrecht as a specialized lawyer in commercial and corporate law with a focus on commercial and distribution law matters and the support of disputes between shareholders ensure the necessary view "outside the box" of employment law

Additional Areas of Competence

  • Corporate Law

    Status of the managing director? Protection through the Company Pensions Act (BetrAVG)? Dealing with service contracts? Better understanding of other company law experts or complex restructuring projects? - Employment law is not limited to the conclusion of a termination agreement - there are countless interfaces with corporate law issues.


    As a specialized lawyer for commercial and corporate law, the founder of Albicker Arbeitsrecht has been handling specific topics of corporate law for many years, in particular 


    • Drafting of contracts, in particular employment contracts (members of the board of directors/managing directors) and consulting contracts;

    • Disputes of all legal types between shareholders of all sorts of companies;

    • Advice to companies on the separation from board members;

    • Post-contractual support of companies and company bodies, in particular in dealing with post-contractual non-competition clauses, protection of secrets and pension schemes;

    • Enforcement of liability claims against company board members;

    • Support of board members in the defense against dismissals/terminations;

    • Defense of liability claims against board members.


  • Distribution Law (Commercial Law)

    Distribution via sales employees or independent sales agents (e.g. sales representatives, authorized dealers)? Enforcement or defense of terminations? Assessment of contract clauses in general terms and conditions? 


    Labour law and distribution law matters often have similar interfaces and comparable argumentation patterns. The founder of Albicker Arbeitsrecht is a member of the Gesellschaft für Vertriebsrecht e.V. For many years he has supported petrol station leaseholders of large mineral oil companies in the nationwide judicial enforcement of compensation claims in accordance with § 89b HGB (German commercial code). As a specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law, the founder of Albicker Arbeitsrecht has many years of proven expertise in selected commercial law issues, in particular:


    • Drafting of national as well as international distribution and supply contracts for companies and sales agents;

    • Support of companies and sales intermediaries in the restructuring or changing of distribution systems;

    • Support of companies and sales intermediaries in arbitration proceedings;

    • Extrajudicial and judicial defense and enforcement of compensation claims according to § 89b HGB (German commercial code).

  • Litigation (Forensic Work)

    Albicker Arbeitsrecht has extensive experience and knowledge in representing companies, banks and executives nationwide before all labor courts, state labor courts, the Federal Labor Court and the ordinary courts (except the Federal High Court of Justice) in Germany.

Professional and National Boundaries?

These do – indeed – exist in favour of our clients.

 

Albicker Arbeitsrecht is, especially during these increasingly complex times and problems, confident of the significant value of specialising in chosen fields of law.

 

Earning fees from non-specialist areas does not correspond to the Albicker Arbeitsrecht law firm model.

Albicker Arbeitsrecht strictly limits the legal advocacy to the prior named areas of competence.

 

Albicker Arbeitsrecht has access to an excellent network thanks to its collaboration with other partners, regarding to non-specialist areas.

 

This network includes, but is not restricted to, independent, competent and specialized external attorneys, domestic and abroad (especially Zürich and Lausanne/CH, Paris, London and New York), who can, if requested, support the clients with and without a management of the mandate through Albicker Arbeitsrecht.