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Dr Thomas Drosdeck is Partner of ADVANT Beiten’s practice group Labour Law in Frankfurt am Main. He specialises in providing labour law advice to companies in the areas of collective labour law, works constitution law and company co-determination. He particularly focuses on the implementation of co-determination structures as well as variable remuneration systems and employee participation schemes under collective law. He advises national and international companies, in particular from the telecommunications, IT sector, Banking and financial services, the automotive sector, chemical and energy sectors as well as the public sector.
Dr Thomas Drosdeck studied law at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main as well as at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. During a doctorate scholarship, he worked at Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main and, at the same time, he held lectures at the private university European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel. He was admitted to the German Bar in 1990 and has been a specialist in labour law ever since. After having been Partner at the law firm Brendel & Partner in Frankfurt am Main, which merged with Faegre & Benson LLP (Minneapolis/USA) in 2001, he joined ADVANT Beiten as Partner in March 2005. Dr Thomas Drosdeck is a lecturer at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
Books:
Co-determination in social matters
Dr Thomas Drosdeck and Dr Gerald Peter Müller
Handbook of Law, Economics, Taxation, 2022, p. 217 ff. Ed.: Holger Dahl
Essays/Articles:
Vacation is a high asset
Dr Thomas Drosdeck and Fabienne Wolf
in: personalmagazin 03.23, p. 58 et seq.
Labour Law in the Corona crisis: mastering the challenges
Dr Thomas Drosdeck (quotes)
in: personalwirtschaft.de, 22. December 2021
Matrix structures: A look at court decisions and corporate practice
Dr Thomas Drosdeck
in: Labor Law Magazine - Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, 03/2021, p. 18 et seq.
Crowdworking – “Collecting bottles on the Internet”
Dr Thomas Drosdeck
in: Labor Law Magazine - Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, 01/2021, p. 6 et seq.
Collecting Bottles on the Internet - Crowdworking Decision of the BAG
Dr Thomas Drosdeck
in: AuA 02/2021, p. 21 et seq.
Section 13 German Federal Vacation Act Violates European Law: Short-Time Work Must not Reduce Leave Pay – no Protection of Confidence for Employers
Dr Thomas Drosdeck and Angela Schilling
in: Der Betrieb, 04/2019, p. 195
The Use of a Laptop, Smartphone, iPad, Remote Access in the "Spare Time" – the Employer's Perspective
Dr Thomas Drosdeck
in: Employee Participation in Social Affairs (Mitbestimmung in sozialen Angelegenheiten), Ro-land Lukas/Holger Dahl (ed.), Frankfurt, 2016, p. 270 et seq.
Reference Period For the Determination of Working Hours with No Explicit Contract
Dr Thomas Drosdeck and Angela Schilling
in: Der Betrieb, 18/2017, p. 1032 et seq.
On Mutual Waiver Clauses in Standard Termination Agreements
Dr Thomas Drosdeck and Angela Schilling
in: Der Betrieb, 43/2016, p. 2546 et seq.
Alternative Models for Works Councils
Dr Thomas Drosdeck and Marco Ferme
in: personalmagazin, 07/2013, p. 61
The Abuse of Law by Fixed-term Cover Contracts
Dr Thomas Drosdeck and Dr. Christian Bitsch
in: Neue juristische Wochenschrift 2013, p. 1345 et seq.
Mediation between the Employer and the Works Council from the Employer's Perspective
Dr Thomas Drosdeck
in: Konfliktlösung im Arbeitsleben, Roland Lukas/Holger Dahl (ed.), published by Luchterhand-Verlag, 1st edition 2013
Lectures:
12. German Human Resources Summit, "The crises as catalyst for change!?", 28.10.2021 in Frankfurt
