The online fashion giant Zalando is set to lay off hundreds of its employees, leaving them vulnerable and uncertain about their future. The layoffs come following overly accelerated growth during the coronavirus pandemic and a more challenging economic environment since then. Employees affected by these layoffs must consider the value of working with German [...]
The multinational investment bank and financial services company, Goldman Sachs, is cutting 6.5% of its jobs worldwide. It is difficult to know at this stage how badly the German subsidiaries but overall, there should be job cuts of approximately 3,200 jobs. Such numbers of layoffs can be compared to those following the collapse of [...]
The COVID-19 coronavirus crisis has proved to have caused great difficulties in the German labour market. We have previously written about how COVID-19 has interacted with employment law in Germany and with short-time working in Germany. In some fields, however, there have been shortages of employees. During the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis there were steps [...]
The spread of COVID-19 coronavirus is leading to unprecedented measures worldwide. This not only affects the personal sphere for now more than a billion people in the form of curfews, quarantines and social distancing measures, but companies in particular are also very much affected by the coronavirus crisis. Considerable losses in turnover, the loss [...]
The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Germany is causing substantial difficulties for employees and companies around Germany and in some cases this is leading to job terminations. In Germany, employees are protected from unfair dismissal and these laws are in place even with the ongoing current crisis. Our page on unfair dismissal in Germany will [...]
The spread of COVID-19 coronavirus is making world headlines. Since its original outbreak in December 2019 in the Wuhan region of China the virus has gone global. In the almost two months since we wrote about the Coronavirus' impact on German visa applications from China, the virus has spread rapidly. There have been over 200,000 [...]
The EU Blue Card has made working in the European Union easier for non-EU citizens. The primary purpose of the EU Blue Card is to ensure ease of access for highly qualified professionals looking to work in Europe. Furthermore, it has aimed to bring workers from other parts of the world to Europe in [...]
Coming from Hong Kong, there are many reasons to move to Germany. In fact, coming from anywhere, there are many reasons to move to Germany. Situated at the heart of Europe, in a geographical, economic and political sense, Germany is a country that offers a huge variety of opportunities. In this article, we will [...]
In case of conflict with the employer, employees generally first have a look into their employment contract. Should they realise that a provision is formulated to their disadvantage, they often give up any further action. However, this is often a mistake. Employment contracts regularly contain provisions that are invalid and therefore not enforceable. [...]