If you are asked in a job interview whether you are pregnant, you have the right to lie. According to the Federal Labor Court, this question is unlawful gender discrimination, which is why you should not be disadvantaged by giving a false answer. If you are pregnant, you have special protection against dismissal...

https://wordpress.org/support/article/excerpt/If you are a severely disabled person, i.e. you have a recognized degree of disability of at least 50, you enjoy special protection against dismissal. A dismissal that is issued without the consent of the Integration Office is void. All types of dismissals are covered by the special protection against dismissal. This means ordinary, extraordinary and…

Certain groups of people enjoy special protection against dismissal. These include works council members, data protection officers, pregnant women, trainees, severely disabled people, parents on parental leave or people who are taking care leave. They may not be dismissed at all or only under special circumstances. Nevertheless, a dismissal must be…

Special payments are benefits from the employer that are not paid out with the usual salary, but on certain occasions or dates (e.g. at Christmas). A distinction is made between special payments that are purely remuneration-based, to reward loyalty to the company, and those that are of a mixed nature. When leaving the employment relationship, for example due to...

In the context of a redundancy notice (change of employment), your employer must carry out a social selection. To do this, he must first form a comparison group. This means that he must analyse you and colleagues whose work is comparable to yours using certain criteria, weigh up the criteria and, on this basis, make a decision as to who should be dismissed...

If you work part-time, you cannot be discriminated against. This means that you cannot be paid a lower hourly wage than if you were working full-time on the grounds that you only work part-time. You even have the right to switch from part-time to full-time and vice versa. If, however, you refuse to switch from part-time to full-time...

Even if the Dismissal Protection Act is not applicable because the six-month waiting period has not expired or because you work in a small business with fewer than ten employees, a dismissal is ineffective if it violates good faith. Your employer must observe a minimum level of social consideration with every dismissal. Bad faith...

The Federal Vacation Act stipulates that you are entitled to 24 days of vacation for a 6-day week. Accordingly, you are entitled to 20 days of vacation for a 5-day week. If your employer does not grant you the vacation you want, you should be careful not to take the vacation on your own. Your employer could terminate your employment without notice...

If you can no longer take your holiday because your employment contract ends beforehand, you are generally entitled to holiday compensation. You are then entitled to your average daily rate times the number of days of holiday left in cash. This does not apply if you did not take the holiday even though you had the opportunity to do so and your employer seriously recommended this to you...

Your employer can terminate your employment for behavioral reasons. The termination is to be measured against the Dismissal Protection Act if it is applicable. You must first have culpably breached a contractual obligation. This must have led to a certain destruction of the relationship of trust and there must be a negative prognosis for the future. This means...