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Berlin. In the proceedings of Rheinhotel Dreesen against the collecting society VG Media initiated by the German Hotel and Guest House Association and the German Hotel Association, a clear step forward has been made.
Offenbach. On the 1 August 2006, the General Equal Treatment Act enters into force. Under the provisions of the new Act, companies are obliged to inform their employees of what constitutes discrimination and to provide appropriate training on its contents.
Berlin. A new bill for an equal treatment law is set to improve protection against discrimination in Germany. What may at first sound quite uncontroversial contains important consequences for employers, opening the floodgates to a whole range of legal disputes. The multinational orientated hotel industry will do well to prepare itself.
Offenbach. What are the ramifications of the new British corporate manslaughter statute - the law covering the death of employees through company negligence - for other internationally operating hotel groups? Our Offenbach employment law expert, Hans-Joachim Jungbluth, explains.