The right of direction, also known as the RIGHT TO GIVE INSTRUCTIONS, allows the employer to determine the content, location and time of work at his or her own discretion. However, this only applies if your working conditions are not already specified in your employment contract, a works agreement, an applicable collective agreement or statutory provisions (Section 106 of the German Trade Code). For you, this means...

Discrimination in the workplace is not uncommon. It also happens that employers terminate employees based on certain characteristics and this constitutes discrimination. To prevent this, the General Equal Treatment Act came into force in 2006. The aim of the law is to prevent discrimination on the grounds of race or ethnic origin,...

In a dismissal under duress, your employer is dismissing you because third parties, usually customers, and occasionally the workforce, are putting pressure on them and threatening to stop working with them if they continue to employ you. If the Dismissal Protection Act is applicable, such a dismissal must meet very high requirements. Your employer must first of all…