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Inka Adam is Partner at ADVANT Beiten’s Frankfurt office and member of the practice group Labour Law. She advises national and international clients in all areas of individual and collective employment law. A particular focus of her work is the representation of clients throughout Germany in complex employment disputes, in particular unfair dismissal and trade secret litigation. Her clients include companies from the mobility, industrial, consumer goods, banking & finance and public sectors. In addition to her work at ADVANT Beiten, Inka Adam has been co-editor of SPA-Schnellinformation für Personalmanagement und Arbeitsrecht, published by C.H. Beck Verlag, since 2018.
Inka Adam studied law at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and was admitted to the German Bar in 2004. She has been working at ADVANT Beiten since 2005 and became Partner in 2009. After a legal traineeship in London, she first worked as lawyer at Ashurst in Munich and then at Faegre & Benson LLP in Frankfurt am Main. She has been a labour law specialist since 2008.
Essays/Articles:
The telephone (children's) sick note
Inka Adam and Luisa Nordhäußer
Schnellinformation für Personalmanagement und Arbeitsrecht (SPA) 2/2024, p. 9 f.
Equal pay: Not a matter for negotiation!
Inka Adam
Schnellinformation für Personalmanagement und Arbeitsrecht (SPA) 16/2023, p. 121 f.
Article on the government draft of the ArbZG
07/2023
Inka Adam and Fabienne Wolf
Fourword (online magazine of the Federal Association of Commercial Law Firms in Germany (BWD))
Interview on labor law aspects of the 4-day week
04/2023
Inka Adam
Personalwirtschaft
Minimum wage and marginal employment - changes from 1.10.2022
Inka Adam
Schnellinformation für Personalmanagement und Arbeitsrecht, 20/2022, p. 153
Working from home (Part 2) - Co-determination of the works council
Inka Adam
Schnellinformation für Personalmanagement und Arbeitsrecht, 17/2018, p. 133-135
Termination of Alleged Islamic Fundamentalist Ineffective
Inka Adam
Der Betrieb, 31/2018, p. 1861
Delete or Continue Storing?
Inka Zielski and Dr. Barbara Reinhard
HRM.de, August/September 2011, p. 94-96
Labour Law Decisions - Court Decisions that Labour Law Specialists Should Be Familiar with
Inka Zielski and Dr. Barbara Reinhard
Human Resources Manager 7/2010, 98
Lectures:
Workshop “Women successful in purchasing” (BME) on June 28, 2024
Company consultant lecture on “Creative solutions in employment law” on June 24, 2024
Workshop for women in management positions at the Bundesverband Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik e.V. (BME) on June 29, 2023
Company integration management (BEM) on June 13, 2023
Breakfast seminar on employment law: "BAG obliges employers to record working hours - what now?" on December 6, 2022
Company integration management - BEM on September 21, 2022
Company consultant lecture on the topic "A look into the future - employment law perspectives" on May 31, 2022
In-house training on the topic of "Co-determination" on June 15, 2021
In-house training on the topic of "Corona and employment law" on March 31, 2021
In-house training on the topic of "Termination agreements and fixed-term employment law" on March 16, 2021
Breakfast seminar on employment law: Coalition agreement 2021 - old wine in new bottles or new challenges for HR? , online seminar, March 10, 2021
In-house training on the topic of "Termination of employment relationships" on March 02, 2021
In-house training on the topic of "Introduction to employment law" on February 09, 2021
Lecture on "Occupational Integration Management and Termination Due to Illness" on 28 September 2017 with Barmer GEK
Lecture at the Management Meetings in Hamburg on 6 September 2017 on "Flexibilisation of Working Hours - Within Healthy Limits“
Lecture on "The Equal Pay Act" on 20 June 2017 in Frankfurt
Lecture at Labour law breakfast seminar on „Implementation of Software with Legal Certainty - A Practical Guide for HR Managers“ on 8 June 2017
Lecture on "Employment of Pupils, Students and Interns" on 18 May 2017 in Frankfurt
Joint Event with Barmer Krankenversicherung (statutory health insurance provider) on "Occupational Integration Management and Termination Due to Illness" on 9, 16 and 24 of May 2017 in Mannheim, Weinheim and Heidelberg
Lecture on "Occupational Integration Management and Termination Due to Illness" on 24 January 2017 in Darmstadt
Lecture on "Occupational Integration Management and Termination Due to Illness" on 19 October 2016 in Darmstadt
Lecture at BPM event on "Working Time, Travel Time, On-call Duty and Overtime" on 24 February 2015 at Beiten Burkhardt
Joint Event with Barmer GEK (statutory health insurance provider) on "The Statutory Minimum Wage" on 26 March 2015 in Limburg
Joint Event with Barmer GEK on "The Statutory Minimum Wage" on 14 April 2015 in Oestrich-Winkel
Joint Event with Barmer GEK on "The Statutory Minimum Wage" on 15 April 2015 at Beiten Burkhardt
Joint Event with Barmer GEK on "The Statutory Minimum Wage" on 16 April 2015 in Wiesbaden
Seminar on the Turn of the Year on 11 December 2014 at client's premises in Frankfurt/Main
Joint Event with Barmer GEK (statutory health insurance provider)on "Employment of Foreign Employees" on 2 December 2014 in Dresden
Joint Event with Barmer GEK (statutory health insurance provider) on "Employment of Foreign Employees" at client in Schwalbach/Taunus on 12 November 2014
Breakfast Seminar on 16 October 2014 on "Pretended illness during the peak holiday season - How can companies react?" in Frankfurt am Main
Joint Event with Barmer GEK (statutory health insurance provider) on "Employment of Foreign Employees" on 8 July 2014 and 10 July 2014 in Frankfurt am Main
Breakfast Seminar on 14 November 2013 on the topic "Time and Again at the End of Every Year - Typical and Tricky Cases Under German Vacation Laws" in Frankfurt am Main
Breakfast Seminar on 27 April 2012 on "Special Protection Against Dismissal in an Employment Relationship in Observance of Specific Procedures" in Frankfurt am Main
Lecture on 8 February 2012 for Executives of a Client in Wiesbaden
Breakfast Seminar on 4 November 2011 on "All Merely Stolen - New Rules for Conduct-Related Dismissals?" in Frankfurt am Main
Lecture on 11 October 2011 for Executives of a Client in Wiesbaden;
Breakfast Seminar on 13 May 2011 on "Selected Issues During Parental Leave - Parental Part-Time Work" in Frankfurt am Main
Lecture on 10 May 2011 for Executives of a Client in Wiesbaden
Happy-Hour with a Skyline view on 27 October 2010 "Exclusively for the Frankfurt Founder Award [Frankfurter Gründerpreis]" in Frankfurt am Main
Breakfast Seminar on 22 September 2010 on "Effective Fixed-Term Contracts - Notes on Terms and Traps" in Frankfurt am Main
Happy-Hour with a Skyline view on 25 August 2010 "Employment Contracts - Talking is Silver, Signing is Gold" in Frankfurt am Main
Lecture at UnternehmensCampus on 21 July 2010 on "Liability on Part of Management and Executive Staff in Case of Breaches of Duty by Employees" in Frankfurt am Main
Liability on Part of Management and Executive Staff in Case of Breaches of Duty by Employees
Effective Fixed-term Contracts - Notes on Terms and Traps
3 Years of the General Equal Treatment Act - A Risk Analysis.
