Part-Time Work

Occupational Pensions: Partial retirement is to be treated as part-time work

By Georg Haberkorn / 30 March 2020 30 March 2020 / Benefits, Part-Time Work, Pension

By judgment of 21 January 2020 (docket number: 3 AZR 281/18) the Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht – BAG) has ruled that for the calculation of pension benefits partial retirement (Altersteilzeit) is to be treated as part-time work (Teilzeitarbeit). The employer and the former employee were in dispute over the question of whether periods of partial …

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Entitlement to overtime premiums regarding part-time employment

By Dr. Henriette Norda LL.M. / 12 January 2019 11 June 2019 / Part-Time Work

According to a judgment of the Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, BAG) dated 19 December 2018 (docket number 10 AZR 231/18), part-time employees can be entitled to the payment of overtime premiums with regard to working hours that go past the agreed part-time hours but do not exceed the working hours of full-time employment. In the …

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Right of part-time employees to return to full-time

By Dr. Kai Bodenstedt LL.M. / 3 December 2018 11 June 2019 / Part-Time Work, Working time

The German parliament has recently passed a law which amends the current Part-Time and Fixed-Term Act and will likely enter into force on 1 January 2019. Under the new law (so-called bridge-part-time-work), employees have the right to work part-time for a period of one to five years (“Part-Time-Period”) and return to full-time after the Part-Time-Period …

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Good news for parents? – Interpretation of social plan severance provisions

By Rodrigo Weihermann / 9 October 2018 11 June 2019 / Discrimination, Equal Treatment, Parental Leave, Part-Time Work, Remuneration, Uncategorized

If, in a social compensation plan, the severance payment calculation is based solely on the gross monthly basic salary of a single reference month, the decisive salary of employees who work part-time in that month during their parental leave, is the gross monthly basic salary which they would have been entitled to under their employment …

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Return from part-time to full time employment – new legislative initiative planned to become effective in 2019

By Dr. Henriette Norda LL.M. / 24 April 2018 11 June 2019 / Legislation, Part-Time Work

Not long ago, the former German government failed to implement a right to return from part-time to full-time employment for employees. In May 2017, former German Secretary of Employment, Andrea Nahles, had to admit that her party’s plan to strengthen employee rights had not been implemented. Just recently, the tide has turned: After the new …

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The right to extend working hours – sec 9 Act on Part-Time Work and Fixed-Term Employment (TzBfG)

By Tom Stiebert / 22 February 2018 11 June 2019 / Part-Time Work, Standard contractual terms and conditions of employment, Working time

Many employees want flexibility at work; often, this means there is a desire to work part-time (less than 40 hours a week). However the reverse case is also not uncommon; an employee wants to increase his working hours, particularly to earn more money. Both cases are covered by German law. However, there is a claim …

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