With our highly specialised lawyers, we cover all areas of employment law across all sectors. Our experts can also assist you with international matters – in China and Russia and through our ADVANT Alliance. Moreover, we are the exclusive member of the Employment Law Alliance (ELA), a worldwide association of lawyers.
In Germany, we advise companies comprehensively on all individual employment matters (“from the very beginning until the end of the employment relationship”), on works constitution law and collective bargaining issues. Our team has acknowledged specialists in all areas of labour law - including transformation measures, foreign-related and transactional labour law. If required, highly specialised lawyers from other areas of law are involved in the development of comprehensive solutions.
AT A GLANCE:
Individual labour law – the legal relationship between an employer and each individual employee – is a significant part of our work. We advise from the initiation of the employment process to the end of an employment relationship. Some examples:
Where works councils represent employees within the group, all issues related to works constitution law - from individual issues to large projects – will be a focus of our work. We have extensive expertise in this key area. Our work includes:
Collective bargaining law, including industrial action law, is a core element of our work in this field. We negotiate collective bargaining agreements on all possible issues, especially remuneration and framework agreements. In the case of strike action, we devise the defence strategy and take the necessary steps to protect the interests of the company. Our activities include, in particular:
Circumstances can force companies to reduce costs and optimise internal processes. Our labour law team provides comprehensive support when analysing the existing situation and develops specific strategies for action. In addition, we assist with the implementation of any downsizing measures or the cessation of operations. We work closely with communications experts and oversee public relations work and internal communications when preparing and executing such projects.
CORE AREAS
Our labour law team advises clients on all aspects of occupational pension schemes. Primarily located in our Düsseldorf office, our pension experts provide fundamental legal support on all aspects of occupational pensions law, including representing clients in court.
EXAMPLES
Our labour law team advises clients on all aspects of employee data protection. This includes:
Globalisation multiplies the challenges facing our clients. International processing of orders, cross-border workforce deployment, and international projects continue to increase. The forms are multi-faceted. The difficulty lies in maintaining the necessary overview of the different areas that are affected. Cross-border workforce deployment, for example, raises labour law, social security, tax and possibly even immigration law issues. We support our clients in all of these aspects. Our international network of proven labour, social security and tax law specialists allows us to offer our clients the best advisory services within short periods of time, even internationally.
Our services include:
INTERNATIONAL WORKFORCE DEPLOYMENT
INTERNATIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
We oversee all aspects of M&A transactions, including corporate acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures, from a labour law perspective and assist with strategic planning, preparation and structuring, through to the implementation of the transaction and workforce integration.
This work includes:
We provide labour law advice and support to insolvency administrators during the restructuring and winding up of companies, but also to investors looking to acquire companies in insolvency. The following are core areas of our work:
(THE LEGAL 500 GERMANY 2024 & THE LEGAL 500 EMEA 2024)
"Our contact person always manages to explain legal processes and make recommendations in a way that even a non-lawyer can understand – the cases are looked at strategically and not reduced to individual cases, so that we always stay true to our strategy, especially when repeating them.";
"Always make reliable, punctual and competent statements.’";
"A strong team of lawyers specializing in employment law.";
"Team of full professionals who cover the entire employment law context."
(The Legal 500 Germany 2024 & The Legal 500 EMEA 2024)
ADVANT Beiten is recommended in the field of Employment Law.
(JUVE Handbook German Commercial Law Firms 2023/2024)
ADVANT Beiten is one of the "Leading Law Firms" in the legal field of Labour Law.
(kanzleimonitor.de 2023/2024)
ADVANT Beiten is awarded as "TOP Law Firm 2023" in the field of Labour Law.
(WirtschaftsWoche 2023)
“We had an extremely good experience with the lawyers, who offered super fast reactions and were clear and to the point.”
“ADVANT Beiten provided fast and reliable processing of enquiries, and deadlines were met very reliably.”
“The law firm has strong commercial awareness as it brings experience and perspective from other clients.”
“We particularly value ADVANT Beiten for questions before the labour courts and settlement offices.”
(Chambers Europe 2023)
"Modern team, high level of expertise, always available, binding feedback, simply outstanding way of working together.";
"The ADVANT Beiten team is widely diversified, so that one has both a main contact person and can draw on the entire team for special topics. The solution approaches are then always coordinated and the concerns of our company are ideally taken into account.";
"Highly professional. Quick and always reliable solutions and masterful accompaniment of negotiations with the company partners.";
"Overall, a very strong, extremely friendly team, which is closely interlinked in professional terms - very efficient processing of tasks - also in case of representation.";
"The Advant Beiten team is always available and able to develop pragmatic and quick solutions to problems. Significantly above-average success rates both in individual labour matters as well as in the collective field (collective agreements)."
(The Legal 500 Germany 2023 & The Legal 500 EMEA 2023)
ADVANT Beiten is awarded as "TOP Law Firm 2022" in the field of Labour Law.
(WirtschaftsWoche 2022)
ADVANT Beiten ist recommended in the field of Employment Law.
(JUVE Handbook German Commercial Law Firms 2022/2023)
A client values ADVANT Beiten's "efficient teamwork and well-coordinated team members."
Another client highlights the team's handling of contentious matters, noting: "The preparation was very good. The facts of the case and the specific procedures were discussed well."
(Chambers Europe 2022)
ADVANT Beiten is awarded as "Leading Firm" in the field of Labour Law.
(The Legal 500 Germany 2022)
"Very good team, always fast and super competent, broad service, up to bilingual translations, preparation of documents, all-round package full service! Very good training offer on the subject of labour law.",
"Team excellently organised, high availability.", "We have been working with the labour law team for a few years now. They are always very professional with extensive specialist knowledge, trustworthy, efficient, solution-oriented and respond quickly.",
No matter what question, whether "normal" employment law, pension provision or the building tariff, which is complicated for us, we receive competent, quick answers. The networking of the individual specialist lawyers, also across the locations, is very good and there is a very great service orientation.",
"Our recently completed centralisation process in several departments was very well accompanied and the disputes, also in court, were not handled with a view to maximum profits for the law firm, but good, quick legal clarification."
(The Legal 500 Germany, 2022)
ADVANT Beiten ist recommended in the field of Employment Law.
(JUVE Handbook German Commercial Law Firms 2021/2022)