Germany on Contract of Employment

The German Federal Labor Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, or "BAG") has ruled that part-time employees must be treated the same as full-time employees when it comes to overtime pay.

In Germany, approximately 107 new employment contracts are signed every 12 minutes.* That sounds impressive! Even more astonishing is the bureaucratic effort required for each new hire. While we can pay at the grocery store with smartwatches and easily open a bank account from home, employment contracts, parental leave applications, and promotion requests still need to be printed, signed by hand (wet ink), and mailed...

Six million employees were on short-time work (›Kurzarbeit‹) in spring 2020. 45.5 billion euros were spent by the German government on short-time work benefits between 2020 and 2022.