Labour & Employment Law


  • Successful challenge in court of a works council election by the employer for lack of common operations as maintained by the works council within the meaning of the Labour Constitution Act, and for failing to reach the required number of employees
  • Validity and scope of post-contractual non-competition clauses, representation of Austrian and foreign employers as well as employees
  • Setting up and terminating managing director agreements by employers and managing directors, including byelaws for management
  • Overtime rules in sales of a trading company, mainly for part-time employees and marginally employed staff on pre-Christmas Saturdays
  • Secondment of staff abroad; extension and termination of secondment contracts by employers
  • Drafting of flexitime agreements
  • Educational leave and compensation of training costs by an employee after termination of employment
  • Maternity protection, leave of absence and part-time employment under the Maternity Leave Act
  • Closure of works in Austria, termination of employment, termination for alteration of contract, termination of secondments
  • Set-up of a works council by a German company at an Austrian branch; legal advice on the concepts of business operations, executive-level staff, information rights and leave entitlements of works council members