Employment law for startups
Building a competent and motivated team is crucial to the success of a start-up. However, founders must observe a variety ...
Tag: Employment relationship
Artificial intelligence (AI) for process automation
The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into business processes offers enormous opportunities to increase efficiency and competitiveness, but also presents ...
Federal Labor Court on termination without notice and default of acceptance
If the employer terminates the employment relationship without notice because it believes that it cannot reasonably be expected to continue ...
Liability risks for esports teams when working with pseudo-self-employed players
Introduction: Why are esports teams vulnerable to liability risks from independent players? Esports teams are at high risk when working ...
Is an 8 year old allowed to be an Esport player?
Esports team "Team 33" recently announced that it has added one of the youngest eSports players in the world, Joseph ...
BAG: Crowdworkers are employees under labor law
The actual performance of micro jobs ("microjobs") by users of an online platform ("crowdworkers") on the basis of a framework ...
Programmer in home work is subject to social insurance!
Dependent employees are subject to social security contributions. This also applies to home workers, even if their job requires a ...
Freelancer – Danger of the client’s claim to enrichment in the case of bogus self-employment
Ohweia: Federal Labor Court: If a supposedly freelance employment relationship subsequently turns out to be an employment relationship, it cannot ...
10 questions & answers about home office
Home office is definitely an unstoppable trend for many professions and businesses. This article is intended to provide a brief ...
No claim to identical credentials in agile project teams
Employees may request a qualified reference from their employer upon leaving. This also applies to agile project teams that work ...
Defamation via Whatsapp justifies termination without notice
The topic of WhatsApp and the legal consequences of careless messages has often been a topic here on the blog. ...
Home office: going to the toilet not an occupational accident
Especially in IT law or marketing agencies and similar companies, home office is quite popular. But until something like a ...
Operator of a crowdworking platform is not to be regarded as an employer
The Regional Labour Court of Munich has ruled that an agreement between a so-called crowdworker and the operator of an ...
When does a project employee become an employee?
The problem Often enough, I have preached to clients and also here on the blog that one should not underestimate ...
Exploitation rights to articles of an editor
My career in the gaming industry started as the operator of a computer game magazine (before that I was editor ...
Minimum wage for help in esports, streams or news portals
In recent months, I have often been critical of issues that I consider to be very problematic in the areas ...