KLIEMT.Arbeitsrecht

The firm: With about 95 certified employment law specialists and attorneys, KLIEMT.HR Lawyers is one of the largest and most successful firms specialising in employment law in Germany. KLIEMT.HR Lawyers focuses on providing employment and labour law advice to national and international enterprises. With offices in Dusseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Berlin and Cologne KLIEMT.HR Lawyers offers comprehensive and high-calibre advice on all questions of employment law – competent, practice-oriented, creative and tailored to the specific requirements of the enterprise in question.

The two founding partners, Prof Dr Michael Kliemt and Dr Oliver Vollstädt, and all the other partners in the firm, originally practised at large international law firms and therefore have many years of international professional experience. The firm represents its clients’ interests throughout Germany at all employment courts up to the level of the Federal Labour Court, including proceedings for a preliminary ruling before the European Court of Justice.

lus Laboris – Global Human Resources Lawyers: KLIEMT.HR Lawyers is a member of lus Laboris, the global alliance of leading law firms providing specialised services in employment/labour law, employee benefits, immigration and pensions law. With more than 1,500 lawyers lus Laboris provides local human resources law expertise across the globe, with member firms in over 55 countries and a presence in more than 100 countries. The seamless international coverage enables KLIEMT.HR Lawyers to provide clients with fully co-ordinated global legal advice on all aspects of human resources.

Clients: KLIEMT.HR Lawyers’ clients include a large number of well-known German and international companies across all industry sectors, above all in the metals and chemical industries, banks and insurance companies, trade, IT and service companies, including many EURO STOXX 50, DAX 30 and MDAX companies.

Areas of practice: The expertise of KLIEMT.HR Lawyers covers all areas of employment law, pensions law and immigration, such as restructuring, outsourcing, transfer of undertakings (s613a German Civil Code), works council constitution law, collective bargaining agreements, trade unions and industrial action, due diligence, privatisation, employee benefits and pension schemes, boards of directors and managing directors, co-determination matters, temporary hire of employees, international secondment of personnel, contracts of employment and termination agreements, remuneration schemes and stock option plans, flexible working hours schemes, ethics guidelines, codes of conduct, corporate governance, compliance, anti-discrimination and equal treatment concerns.