Dr Katharina Fischer

Senior Associate

Emailkatharina.fischer@dlapiper.com

Call+49 40 188 88 261

Hamburg

About

Areas of FocusEmployment

Professional QualificationsRechtsanwältin admitted with Hanseatische Rechtsanwaltskammer Hamburg

EXPERIENCE

Languages

Education

Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, Second State Examination, 2017

Bucerius Law School, PhD, 2016

Bucerius Law School, First State Examination, 2015

RECOMMENDATION

Handelsblatt in cooperation with Best Lawyers 2024/2025: Recognised as ‘One To Watch’ for company pensions and labour law

Publications

Reporting obligations regarding work-life balance (with H.-P. Löw), ZAU 2024, 219 f.
Ghosting in employment law. Disappeared applicants and employees (with M. Fuhlrott), ArbRAktuell 2024, 209 et seq.
Thüsing, Whistleblower Protection Act, 1st ed. 2024, revision of §§ 10, 11, Beck-Verlag
Effective terminations without prior mass redundancy notice? Discussion of the Federal Labour Court's order for reference of 14 December 2023 - 6 AZR 157/22 (B), and the Federal Labour Court's order for reference of 1 February 2024 - 2 AS 22/23 (A) (with M. Fuhlrott), NZA 2024, 246
Limiting non-pecuniary damages in the event of a violation of the right to information? (with M. Fuhlrott), NZA 2023, 606
Influences of EU law on German employment law through preliminary rulings (with M. Fuhlrott) in: The Preliminary Ruling Procedure in Germany and Poland, edited by Bernard Łukańko and Alexander Thiele, Mohr Siebeck, 24 May 2023
Sustainable Corporate Governance through the Lens of Employment Law – Reporting on Employment Law Aspects under the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) (with H.-P. Löw), BB 2023, 372
Erfurt locuta: Working hours must actually be recorded (with M. Fuhlrott), ArbR Aktuell 2023, 1
Energy crisis: Selected options for employers to react (with K. Bodenstedt), ZAU 2022, 681
Non-disclosure clauses in the light of trade secret protection (with M. Fuhlrott), NZA 2022, 809-815
Operational risk in pandemic-related closures, GWR 2022, 71
Union law imprints on German labor law through preliminary rulings (with M. Fuhlrott), RdA 2022, 19
The statutory right to ask companies about vaccination status (with M. Fuhlrott), ArbRAktuell 2021, 489-492
Duty to vaccinate in the employment relationship? (with M. Fuhlrott), NJW 2021, 657
Finally: Virtual decision-making for employee representatives (with M. Fuhlrott), NZA 2020, 490
Labor Law and Corona 2.0 - Further Legal Changes (with M. Fuhlrott), NZA 2020, 409
Corona: Viral Adaptations of Labor Law (with M. Fuhlrott), NZA 2020, 345
Application of "transformed" collective bargaining conditions after chain transfer, comment on BAG, Urt. v. 12.6.2019 - 1 AZR 154/17 (with T. Grau), NZA 2019, 1469
No substantive fixed-term notice in the case of prior employment dating back eight years and nine months, comment on BAG, judgment of 20.3.2019 - 7 AZR 409/16, GWR 2019, 373
Repeat termination. Consumption of design rights and res judicata in dismissal protection proceedings (doctoral dissertation), Duncker & Humblot, 2017