Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Germany as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Germany: Cyber insurance
The German Financial Supervisory Authority has issued a non-binding order allowing cyber insurance policies also to cover criminal extortion payments …
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Germany: Maternity leave
From January 1st 2018 employees on maternity leave in Germany will have the right to extend their leave to 12 weeks after the birth if their child is born with a disability …
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Germany: Hourly labour costs in Q2 2017
Hourly labour costs rose in Germany over the year to Q2 2017 by 2 …
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Germany: Mobile technological equipment for members of Works Councils
In a recent decision of the Frankfurt/Main supreme labour court (LAG Frankfurt / Main, 03 …
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Germany: More than 75% of all enterprises provide continuing vocational training
According to latest figures from the Federal Statistical Office, in 2015 more than 75% of enterprises provided continuous vocational training – a rise of 4% since 2010 …
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Germany: 11% of the 65 to 74-year-olds are in employment
Since 2012, the normal retirement age in Germany has gradually been raised to 67 years …
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Germany: Act to promote transparency of pay structures
As previously reported, the Act to promote transparency of pay structures (Entgelttransparenzgesetz) came into force on July 6th 2017 …
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Germany: Index of collectively agreed earnings
Over the year to June 2017 the German index of collectively agreed earnings in industry and services rose by 3 …
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Germany: Overhaul of pension system
The German government is seeking to extend the popularity of company pensions to medium-sixed and smaller companies …
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Germany: New law allowing to extensively survey messenger services
The next time your computer system receives spyware the source could be legal – at least in Germany …
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Germany: Labour costs Q1 2017
Over the year to Q1 2017 hourly labour costs in Germany rose by 2 …
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Germany: Tesla Grhmann Automation
The company Grohmann Engineering was taken over by the US automaker Tesla last Autumn and renamed Tesla Grhmann Automation …
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Germany: Peer pressure
The online retailer Amazon has come up with a novel way to encourage their German workforce to turn up to work – peer pressure …
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Germany: Full face covering burqa and niqab
The lower house of the German federal parliament has given way to pressure from right wing populist parties by passing a ban on the wearing of the full face covering burqa and niqab by civil servants, judges and the military …
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Germany: Highway toll
The decision by the German government to start charging foreign drivers special tolls for driving on German roads is raising strong opposition from neighboring states …
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