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Ralph Muthers

Lawyer
Specialist lawyer for Labor law

Koblenz
Nicole Graef
0261 - 404 99 - 69
0261 - 404 99 - 786

Expertise

Individual labor law, in particular the design of employment relationships and compensation systems, as well as the termination of employment relationships and protection against dismissal, works constitution law (e.g. operational changes, reconciliation of interests, social plan), collective bargaining law

Memberships
VDAA German Employment Lawyers Association

Further training
Default of acceptance – principles and current case law (01/2025)

Pay Transparency Directive (10/2024)

Restructuring in a crisis (04/2024)

The ins and outs of arrangements with the works council (03/2024)

Compulsory time tracking – what employers need to do now (02/2023)
  Content of the event:
  • Working hours as defined by the ArbZG
  • Working hours in the sense of remuneration, §§ 611ff BGB
  • Time tracking and trust-based working hours
  • Impact of the ECJ decision on time tracking from May 14, 2019
  • The decision of the Federal Labor Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht – BAG) of September 13, 2022
  • Consequences of not recording for employers and managers
  • The LASI fine catalog
  • Delegation concept and "working hours representative" in the company
  • Works constitution law
  • procedural


Insolvency labor law (09/2022)

"Better safe than sorry" – the latest update on occupational safety (06/2022)
  Content:
  • The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on occupational safety
  • Risk assessment as a central task of the employer
  • Transfer of employer obligations to "knowledgeable" employees
  • The assessment of "equal" working conditions
  • Health and safety at work and home office – what regulations apply?
  • Health care
  • Options for employees to respond to breaches of occupational safety and health regulations by the employer


Partial retirement (03/2022)

Labor law potpourri – current case law and developments in all areas of individual labor law (03/2022)

Employment law and company acquisition – personnel as deal drivers and deal breakers (03/2022)

IT co-determination in the company (11/2021)

Labor law Querbeet – 3rd event – current case law and developments in all areas of individual labor law (11/2021)
  The seminar will cover current issues in individual labor law based on the more recent rulings of the Federal Labor Court
and the courts of instance. For this purpose,
individual decisions are prepared in a practice-oriented manner and communicated in a comprehensible way. In part 3
of this lecture, the seminar deals with decisions on the following
subject areas:
  • CORONA - ArbG Hamburg, 23.3.21, 15 Ca 566/20 (wage default for work without a mask)
  • SHORT-TIME WORKING - ArbG Munich, July 19, 2021, 33 Ca 13634/20 (Short-time working – general terms and conditions control)
  • DISMISSAL - LAG Niedersachsen, 4.5.21, 11 Sa 1180/20 (Removal of written warning after end of employment)
  • AGG - LAG Baden-Wuerttemberg, 17.5.21, 10 Sa 49/20 (AGG claim in the event of termination without
  • approval of the integration office)
  • Dismissal - Regional Labor Court Nuremberg, March 18, 2021, 4 Sa 413/20 (dismissal after refusal of short-time work), Regional Labor Court Rhineland-Palatinate, September 6, 2021, 1 Sa 299/20 (dismissal due to withdrawal of driving license) and LAG Hamm, 25.03.2021, 18 Sa 1197/20 (Termination due to headscarf)
  • CERTIFICATE - BAG, judgment of April 27, 2021, 9 AZR 262/20 (certificate in tabular form)
  • PROZESSUALES - LAG Baden-Württemberg, 1.9.21, 4 Sa 63/20 (beA – belated admission of the action), LAG Baden-Württemberg, July 28, 2021, 4 Sa 68/20 (access via registered mail) and OLG Brandenburg, August 6, 2021, 15 WF 69/21 (limited power of attorney in legal aid proceedings)


Labor law hotchpotch – current case law and developments in all areas of individual labor law (07/2021)

Corona and other disasters – the employment relationship in crisis mode (03/2021)

Restructuring and labor law (11/2020)

Pseudo self-employment (08/2020)

Make operationally necessary layoffs legally secure in the crisis (06/2020)

Coronavirus: The most important questions in labor law mandates (03/2020)

Reconciliation of interests and social plan (03/2020)

Current developments in labor law (06/2019)

Labor law from an employer's perspective (02/2019)

Update on labor-management relations law (11/2018)

Interface between labor and social law: News on the German Social Security Code (SGB III), with particular consideration of the social-legal consequences of labor-law decisions (10/2018)

The 2018 works council election (01/2018)

all entries Employment Relationship 2018 (11/2017)

Professional representation at the conciliation board (06/2017)

News on part-time, temporary and fixed-term employment relationships (01/2017)

Data protection and other legal issues concerning PCs at the workplace (07/2016)

Labor law hot spots (04/2016)

Case study: employment contract (01/2016)

Evidence, use of evidence and prohibitions on use in labor court proceedings (10/2015)

News from the law on vacation and fixed-term contracts (10/2015)

Errors in labor court settlements – pitfalls and opportunities (06/2015)

Update labor law (02/2015)

Flexibility in labor law through contract design (09/2014)

EU labor law in legal practice (07/2014)

New developments in the control of general terms and conditions in labor law (12/2013)

Termination law in labor law (04/2013)

Languages
English

French

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