Dr Felix Häringer

An order requiring an employee who works half the time from home to report to the workplace in person from Monday through Thursday is legally invalid. The key point is that a stricter requirement to be present at the workplace cannot be justified simply by citing the withdrawal of a “work-from-home privilege,” but rather requires...

I was born in Freiburg and grew up in the immediate vicinity of the city. My childhood was heavily influenced by tennis—I spent countless afternoons and weekends on the court. As a young boy, I therefore harbored—like so many children with a favorite sport—the dream of one day playing tennis professionally. Of course, that was...

The question of whether external applicants who were not previously employed by the employer and have already reached the standard retirement age may be rejected on the basis of their age was recently decided by the Federal Labor Court (BAG) (judgment of May 8, 2025 – 8 AZR 299/24). The BAG concluded that although age...