Taylor Wessing's employment advice focuses on restructuring, compliance, data protection, mobile work and corporate co-determination issues. Most recently, the team also acted before the ECJ and the BAG in precedent proceedings regarding temporary employment agreements; here, Oliver Bertram and Anne Förster are the key contacts as well as for matters regarding the compliant use of external personnel. Other recent key topics included works council remuneration, the Evidence Act as well as working time recording. The team is led by Kilian Friemel, who is experienced in developing concepts for personnel, pay and working time flexibility, and includes restructuring expert Marc André Gimmy. Jan-Patrick Vogel (HR compliance and corporate compliance) made partner in May 2023.
Testimonials
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'Gold standard - advice is very practical and business-oriented and avoids unnecessary, overly complicated solutions. Offer specific solutions and are incredibly responsive.'
'Legally very competent; precise and comprehensive processing of the facts in question; timely feedback; Showing “feasible” solutions even in complex situations - all of this applies to individual labor law as well as collective labor law, and this applies in particular to Kilian Friemel.'
'Oliver Bertram: Excellent expert on temporary employment, absolutely legally professional with great affinity for practice.'
'Distinctive team culture. Extremely professional and trusting as well as very successful cooperation. Clients receive the best possible care here.'
'High expertise in the IT sector.'
'Very high commitment and a very high level of service. Concerns are always handled with the utmost professionalism. It is particularly important to emphasize that agreed deadlines and delivery dates are usually not only met, but as a client the results are usually available 1-2 days before the agreed date. Communication is always clear and accurate, so you feel like you're in good hands.'
'Christian Maron: Easy to work with, always responsive, commercial and business focused, provides detailed estimates, incredibly experienced.'
'Michael Johannes Pils' expertise in the area of labor law is unique.'
Key clients
- Audi
- Adobe
- About You
- American Airlines
- DeepL
- Enterprise Rent-a-Car
- Evonik
- Froneri (Schöller)
- Hays
- Lyft
- Panasonic
- Rewe
- Techtronic Industries
- Asana
- Databricks
- Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
- DKB Grund
- Doordash
- Graphite Cova
- Haier
- ID Logistics
- Indigene
- IU Group
- KARL MAYER Gruppe
- Luminar Technologies
- Medallia
- Randstad
- Sophos
- TimePartner Personalmanagement
- Zeppelin Group
Work highlights
- Compliance advice for Audi pertaining to possible criminally relevant 'false remuneration' as a result of the BGH ruling on works council remuneration at VW.
- Advising Graphite Cova on the closure of a production facility due to the energy crisis (restructuring).
- Successful representation of TimePartner Personalmanagement GmbH across all instances, including the ECJ and BAG, in the Schindler matter, a procedure initiated by the Däubler campaign to establish that temporary employment collective agreements were illegal under European law.