Employment, Labor and Pensions

We have extensive experience working for global businesses throughout the world, and can coordinate services for you across jurisdictions and time zones. Our international presence means we can give you rapid-response legal support ‘on the ground’ across the world. You’ll be joining an established global network – and one that’s been in place for decades.

Our lawyers are experienced practitioners, many of whom advocate in local labor courts and beyond. As well as having the experience to advise you on global projects, they also have deep local knowledge of the law and what happens in practice.

All of our lawyers understand the importance of proactive and pragmatic partnering. You can expect quick response times and an answer designed for your business, not an off-the-shelf response. 

Our global team are thought leaders and actively involved in shaping benefits law and policy.

Employment, labour law and pensions in Germany

With approximately 40 solicitors, we have one of the largest and most renowned labour law teams in Germany. Our advice covers the entire spectrum of labour law in terms of individual and collective law. We are happy to advise you on topics such as:

• Contract and remuneration structuring, taking into account the rules on pay transparency
• Flexible deployment of personnel
• Termination of employment relationships and extensive restructuring and rationalisation measures, including transfers of undertakings
• Negotiations with the works council, conclusion of works agreements and conciliation committee proceedings
• Collective bargaining
• Company pension schemes
• International personnel deployment
• Labour law aspects of the use of AI in companies
• Compliance
• Employee protection
• Transaction-related labour law (due diligence)

A team operating throughout Germany, based in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich and led by experienced partners, is at your disposal for all these matters. With effective, creative and economical solutions, we implement your objectives with commitment, a strong hands-on mentality and our many years of experience.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to working with you.

Awards:

Top-listed by JUVE (Handbook 2025/2026)

Top-listed in Legal 500 Germany (2025/2026)

Awarded by Handelsblatt as ‘Germany's Best Lawyers’ (2025, twelve lawyers awarded in employment law)

Awarded by Brand eins – Best Commercial Law Firms in Employment Law (2024)