Dr Martin Kalf is Senior Associate at ADVANT Beiten in Berlin and a member of the Labour Law practice group. He is a licensed specialist for lawyer law. His practice covers all areas of individual and collective labour law. He specializes in providing employment law advice in connection with corporate transactions and mergers as well as restructurings.
Dr Martin Kalf studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). He completed his second state examination in Cologne and Düsseldorf (2015). He was admitted to the bar in 2016. Before joining ADVANT Beiten in 2025, Dr Martin Kalf worked for several years as an in-house lawyer in the employment law department at the Corporate Headquarters of an energy supply company and as a lawyer for employment law in several commercial law firms. He has been working with ADVANT Beiten since 2025.
Publications:
The rights of the trade unions in the enterprise
Dr Martin Kalf
in: Juris Lawyer Certificate Labour Law (AnwZert ArbR) 9/2025 Note 2
Illness during vacation and vacation during illness
Dr Martin Kalf
in: Juris Lawyer Certificate Labour Law (AnwZert ArbR) 8/2025 Anm. 2
Official prevention procedure also for dismissals during the probationary period - an overview of case law
Dr Martin Kalf
in: Juris Lawyer Certificate Labour Law (AnwZert ArbR) 7/2025 Anm. 2
Changes to the German Vocational Training Act
Dr Martin Kalf
in: Juris Lawyer Certificate Labour Law (AnwZert ArbR) 5/2025 Anm. 2
The remuneration of released works council members
Dr Martin Kalf
in: Juris Lawyer Certificate Labour Law (AnwZert ArbR) 4/2025 Anm. 2
Labour law in matrix organizations- an overview
Dr Martin Kalf
in: Juris Lawyer Certificate Labour Law (AnwZert ArbR) 3/2025 Anm. 2
The internal reporting office under the Whistleblower Protection Act and special features in Church Labour law
Prof. Dr Nicolai Besgen/Dr Martin Kalf
in: Journal for labour law and collective bargaining policy in church enterprises (ZAT), 2024, S. 2-10
Judgment note on BAG, judgment of 25th January 2023 - 10 AZR 29/22 (Proportionate bonus entitlement in accordance with the principle of equal treatment under labour law)
Dr Martin Kalf
in: Labour Law Adviser (ArbRB) 2023, 133-134
Judgement note on BAG, judgement of 18th January 2023 - 5 AZR 93/22 (burden of proof in the case of continuing illnesses - obligation to disclose all illnesses)
Dr Martin Kalf
in: Labour Law Adviser (ArbRB) 2023, 167-168
Judgement note on BAG, judgement of 28th February 2023 - 2 AZR 194/22 (provision of false social data at the works council hearing on dismissal)
Dr Martin Kalf
in: Labour Law Adviser (ArbRB) 2023, 167-168
European Labour Law and the church's right to self-determination
Dr Stephan Pötters / Dr Martin Kalf
in: Journal for European Social and Labour Law (ZESAR) 2012, 216-224
Books and papers:
Hospital Labor Law – Handbook, published by Prof. Dr. Nicolai Besgen,
Dr Martin Kalf
Editing of chapter 1 (Initiation and establishment of employment relationships) and chapter 2 (Co-Determination in the workplace), approx. 150 pages in total, in: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2025, 3rd ed.
Whistleblower Protection Act (HinSchG), published by Prof. Dr. Gregor Thüsing, LL.M. (Harvard)
Dr Martin Kalf
Editing on Sec. 24 and 25, in: C.H.Beck-Verlag, 2024, 1st ed.
Dismissal with an option of altered labour conditions in light of the Principle of Proportionality - Factual potential and legal limits
Dr Martin Kalf
in: Bonner Schriften zum deutschen und europäischen Recht der Arbeit und der Sozialen Sicherheit, Peter Lang Verlag, 2013
