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Issue 02/2025
We are pleased to present the February issue of our newsletter Andersen European Employment Insights! This issue provides detailed analysis of the latest updates to employment laws, regulations, court decisions and collective agreements in 19 European countries.
Federal Labor Court decision
On October 17, 2024, the Federal Labour Court rejected the appeal of a well-known manufacturer of filling machines. Its aim: to protect its own trade and business secrets. An employee who had left the company was to be prohibited from passing on this sensitive information to a competitor company as part of his new job. The employment contract of the employee who had left the company contained a comprehensive and indefinite confidentiality clause with regard to trade and business secrets as well as all other matters and processes of the company that came to light in the course of his work.
Andersen GmbH Rechtsberatung Steuerberatung strengthens with new partner Philippe Kamarowsky - Expansion of real estate and financing advice
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On December 12, 2024, the Regional Court of Munich II dismissed the action brought by a former member of the management board of a district savings bank. His objective: the payment of his contractually agreed pension for the month of March 2023. The plaintiff had been sentenced shortly beforehand in January 2023 to a total prison sentence of 1 year and 8 months for breach of trust in 30 cases. The district savings bank, an institution under public law, which only learned of the conviction at the end of February 2023, filed a counterclaim and demanded repayment of the pension payments already made from January 13, 2023.
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Issue 12/2024
As the year draws to a close, we are pleased to present the December issue of our newsletter Andersen European Employment Insights!
Andersen in Germany is one of Germany's top 200 tax advisory firms in 2025! We are delighted to have been recognized by Statista and Capital Magazine in the following areas:
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Andersen is one of the TOP 100 law firms We are very pleased about the awards that both Andersen in Germany and our esteemed colleague Dr. Moritz Brocker have received in the current Law Firm Monitor 2024/2025 of the German Institute for Legal Departments and In-house Counsel (diruj)!
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Germany's economy is groaning under bureaucracy. This is currently at least a common narrative in politics and in the "executive floors". Small and medium-sized companies in particular are complaining about the ever-increasing administrative burden and the associated high costs. In view of Germany's weak economic data, the "traffic light" government has now decided to reduce the burden on the German economy by around 944 million euros per year through the so-called Bureaucracy Relief Act IV[1]. This relief is to be achieved, among other things, by reducing the formal requirements under civil law.
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We are very proud that Andersen will be a platinum sponsor of the upcoming CEE Property Forum 2024 in Vienna.
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