TIGGES Rail Team with several articles in RdTW 05/2023 focusing on rail freight transport
The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für das Recht der Transportwirtschaft (RdTW, issue 5/2023) is fully dedicated to rail freight transport and we are delighted that Dr. Frank Wilting, Klaus-Peter Langenkamp and Dr. Jan Hermeling from the TIGGES Rail competence team have contributed several articles to the issue.
Article trans.iNFO: The Supply Chain Duty of Care Act: Effects on the logistics industry
In the current issue of Trans.iNFO, the online magazine for the logistics industry, which focuses on “Supply chains in crisis mode”, TIGGES lawyer Kim Lif Rademacher summarizes the effects of the new law on the logistics industry.
Employment law update: Electronic certificate of incapacity for work is mandatory from 2023 – the end of the “yellow slip”
From January 1, 2023, the reporting procedure for electronic certificates of incapacity for work (eAU) will be mandatory for employers. The paper certificate of incapacity for work will then be obsolete – with a few exceptions.
Wave of warnings for the use of Google Fonts (formerly “Google Web Fonts”) on websites
A new wave of warnings is currently affecting numerous companies. Users of the “Google Fonts” font tool on company websites are the target of the warnings. Read more here about who is being warned and what to do.
BAG on 13.09.2022: Recording working hours is mandatory for all employers in Germany
With its decision of September 13, 2022, the Federal Labour Court clarified that German employers are already obliged under current German employment law to maintain a system that enables employees to record their working hours (and thus also and in particular those that exceed the contractually owed amount).
Transport law: Liability of the RU arising from a shunting accident – Publication by Klaus-Peter Langenkamp in RdTW
In the current issue of the trade journal Recht der Transportwirtschaft (RdTW, issue 7/2022), Klaus-Peter Langenkamp, Head of the Transport Law & Rail Competence Team at TIGGES, published a comprehensive review of a judgment on the subject of “Liability of the RU arising from a shunting accident”.
NRW.Global Business & TIGGES: FAQ Logistics Location NRW – available in 6 languages
North Rhine-Westphalia is a central logistics hub and it is important for foreign transport companies to familiarize themselves with the legal framework at an early stage. Together with NRW.Global Business, the TIGGES Transport & Logistics Competence Team has therefore published an FAQ brochure on North Rhine-Westphalia as a logistics location.
RAILBUSINESS: Interview with Dr. Frank Wilting on the legal dispute iS Rastatt
Five years have already passed since the collapse of the tunnel construction site in Rastatt, but the legal dispute between Deutsche Bahn and the railroads and rail customers affected by the interruption of the Rhine Valley railroad near Rastatt in 2017 is still ongoing. In an interview in RAILBUSINESS, TIGGES Of Counsel Frank Dr. Wilting comments on the current status of the dispute.
Publication PROMISSUM in the magazine “Stiftung & Sponsoring” (Red Pages): “Foundations as an instrument of corporate succession”
As part of this PROMISSUM cooperation, we worked with the law firm dtb to design an issue of the magazine “Stiftung & Sponsoring” (Red Pages) on the topics of the psychology of inheritance and foundations as an instrument of corporate succession.
Declaration of rent increase after modernization – BGH specifies required scope of cost breakdown
On 20 July, the Federal Court of Justice put an end to the previously contradictory case law of the courts of lower instances on the formal requirements for a declaration of rent increase after modernization has been carried out with two decisions. We summarize the most important points for you here.