If your employment relationship ends, your employer may provide you with a so-called settlement receipt. This is usually a declaration that you no longer have any further claims arising from the employment relationship. You should therefore ask for a period of reflection and seek legal advice. Otherwise, you could be faced with...

If an extraordinary termination is issued, this usually takes effect immediately, i.e. without notice. However, your employer can combine the extraordinary termination with a notice period. This period must then correspond to the statutory notice period or an agreed or collectively agreed notice period...

Many employment contracts contain so-called exclusion or expiry periods. After the expiry of the period specified therein, claims arising from the employment relationship expire if they are not asserted within the specified period. These are often two-stage exclusion periods. In the first stage, you or your employer must assert their claims against the...