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).

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.

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.

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.

Managing directors are obliged to set up a compliance management system, i.e. to take organizational precautions to prevent the company or its employees from committing legal violations. This was once again expressly confirmed by the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg in its decision of March 30, 2022 (case no. 12 U 1520/19).