Costs of education can be reclaimed if these are costs which were actually paid and are provable by the employer (course costs, travel expenses, material costs, possible labour costs), which conveyed special theoretical and practical knowledge to the employee. The refund must by all means be agreed in writing as soon as all necessary information...
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Basically the employee can be dismissed during sick leave. However, despite the termination of the employment relationship with the ending of the period of notice, the employee is still entitled to sick pay for a period determined by law.
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The dismissal is the termination of the work relationship without prior notice. Thus it is only justified, if the employee´s behaviour impairs the employer´s interests so severely, that it is unacceptable to continue the employment up to the next possible date of notice. The dismissal must be expressed as soon as the employer gains knowledge...
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Attention must be paid in the “planned, reprehensible enticing away” of higher qualified employees for the purpose of using their experiences, services resp. relations with the new competitor, and to entice away customers of the former employer with the new employees. This represents a violation of the competition law.
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Basically, the employer wants to avoid that informal operating capital such as customer contacts, special knowledge and strategies benefit a competitor company in the event of a job change. With the competition clause, the employee should be prevented from changing to a competitor immediately or after a certain time (transition period) or to found a...
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