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    Dr Michael Matthiessen
    ADVANT Beiten - Berlin
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Labour Law
    Partner

    Dr Michael Matthiessen

    ADVANT Beiten - Berlin
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Labour Law
    Partner

    LANGUAGES

    English / German

    Practice Areas

    Contract & Commercial Law - Labour Law

    Sectors

    Banking & Finance - Healthcare - Mobility

    Contacts

    T : +49 30 26471 365

    F : +49 30 26471 123

    Michael.Matthiessen@advant-beiten.com

    Expertise

    Dr. Michael Matthiessen is Partner at ADVANT Beiten's Berlin office and member of the Labour Law practice group. His area of expertise comprises employment contract drafting, employee reduction measures as well as works constitution issues. He advises national and international employers especially concerning individual and collective conflicts.

    Dr. Michael Matthiessen studied law at the University of Greifswald and was admitted to the German Bar in 2007. Furthermore, he has also been lecturer at the University of Greifswald since 2007. Dr Michael Matthiessen has been working with ADVANT Beiten since 2022.

    Awards

    Recommended Lawyer
    The Legal 500 Germany & EMEA 2024
    Recommended Lawyer
    The Legal 500 Germany & EMEA 2023
    Empfohlener Anwalt
    The Legal 500 Deutschland 2025

    Publications

    Books:

    Handbook of the law of sales
    Eckert/Maifeld/Matthiessen, C.H. Beck, 2007, 2. ed. 2014

    Soergel, Comment on BGB (directories)
    W. Kohlhammer, 13./14. ed.

    Exclusion periods under employment contracts
    Matthiessen, Nomos, 2007

    Essays:

    The draft of the Whistleblower Protection Act - Will it also apply to companies?
    Matthiessen/Pflästerer/Dziuba
    in: SPA (beck-online) 20/2022, p. 157 et seq.

    Collective reference as a prerequisite for co-determination in working time measures
    Matthiessen
    in: ZBVR-Online 2/2018

    Tendering obligation and works council participation
    Matthiessen
    in: ZBVR-Online 5/2015, 32

    The works council's right to information in the case of individual personnel measures within the meaning of law § 99 sect. 1 BetrVG
    Matthiessen
    in: ZBVR-Online 3/2013, 31

    Formal requirements for refusal of consent by the staff council
    Matthiessen
    in: ZfPR 3/2010, 73

    Current case law of the BAG on co-determination in recruitment
    Matthiessen
    in: ZBVR-Online 1/2010, 22

    Formal requirements for refusal of consent by the works council 
    Matthiessen
    in: ZBVR-Online 9/2009, 24

    Right of final decision of the supreme service authority in case of insufficient information of the staff committee? Note to the BVerwG, decision of 10.02.2009, file no. 6 PB 25.08
    Matthiessen
    in: ZfPR Online 3/2009, 3

    Assertion of claims by way of action to preserve a two-stage preclusion period by means of an action for protection against dismissal - change in case law of the BAG
    Matthiessen
    in: NZA 2008, 1165

    The treatment under remuneration law of previous periods of work as a "doctor in training" within the scope of the TV doctors
    Matthiessen
    in: MedR 2008, 492

    Exclusion periods in employment contracts and the prohibition of clauses of § 309 no. 7 BGB
    Matthiessen
    in: NZA 2007, 361

    Wrong date for termination - From when does the three-week period for filing a complaint apply?
    Matthiessen/Shea
    in: AuA 2005, 208

    Working time regulations contrary to European law - treatment and legal consequences against the background of the Pfeiffer decision des EuGH
    Matthiessen/Shea
    in: DB 2005, 106

    Effectiveness of exclusion clauses in collective agreements and employment contracts after the reform of the law of obligations
    Matthiessen/Shea
    in: DB 2004, 1366

    Inclusion of leased business real estate in the calculation basis for the remuneration of the preliminary insolvency administrator
    Matthiessen/Sievers
    in: ZInsO 2003, 847

    The claim of the insolvency administrator of the tour operator to the customer money booked with the travel agency
    Eckert/Matthiessen
    in: RRa 2003, 98